"If the plaintiff chooses to pursue a state claim, we are confident we will prevail."

Federal law, for example, prevents a petitioner from seeking federal relief where the state claims have not yet been exhausted.

Over the last two years, the tobacco industry has reached settlements to resolve state claims for Medicaid reimbursements worth $246 billion.

Sanctuaries ensure the protection of wildlife of private lands which outside the state claim.

The American Erie doctrine today applies regardless of how the federal court may hear a state claim.

Most lobbyists who register with the state claim to lobby only the Legislature and the executive branch.

Both sides said it was unclear how the state claims would be resolved.

Once that is done, he said, the state claims will not be shipped to other countries for processing.

Their state claims were among 2,200 filed related to the attack, said Jon A. Sullivan, the board's director of public information.

Now advocates for poor children were meeting with some success bringing state constitutional claims.