About three dozen cities have filed such suits in the past two years.

Experts say hundreds of thousands of new claims are likely to be filed in the years to come.

Porter continued to file appeals in the years that followed, delaying the execution.

Experts estimate that an additional 400,000 claims will be filed in the next two years.

"There have been very few, perhaps none, filed in Illinois in the last 45 years."

That company filed for bankruptcy three times in the last six years.

A bureau spokesman said today that six sexual-harassment complaints had been filed in the last five years.

The agency has rejected more than half of the 51 cases filed in the last five years, often on procedural grounds.

The stated reason was that it had failed to file a tax return in the prior two years.

Most taxpayers fall into trouble by not having the money one year, and then they are afraid to file in the following years, he said.