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News Corp could face up to 500 claims in phone-hacking scandal

Lawyers estimate that there are 400 more cases related to the News of the World's phone hackings that have yet to be filed or settled.

Copies of the last-ever News of The World newspaper are put up for sale at a newsagents in central Manchester on July 10, 2011 in Manchester, England. The paper's parent company News Corp. could face up to 500 claims related to the phone hacking scandal that closed the paper last year.

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