The legal backlog of cases pending against the GSEs and former company officials got a little shorter following the recent dismissal of two separate federal lawsuits against three defendants. A federal judge in Washington this week dismissed a long-simmering class-action lawsuit against Fannie Mae’s former Chief Financial Officer Timothy Howard brought by investors hoping to recover damages.Two Ohio pension funds – the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, filed suit in 2004 related to a $6.3 billion overstatement of earnings against Fannie and three former GSE executives, including CEO Franklin Raines.