City businessmen carrying women's cases (8)
I believe the answer is:
lawsuits
'cases' is the definition.
('lawsuit' can be a synonym of 'case')
'city businessmen carrying women's' is the wordplay.
'city' becomes 'LA' (Los Angeles).
'businessmen' becomes 'suits' (I've seen this in another clue).
'carrying' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, the bottom letters carry others).
'women' becomes 'w' (standard abbreviation).
'suits' put after 'w' is 'wsuits'.
'la'+'wsuits'='LAWSUITS'
(Another definition for lawsuits that I've seen is " Legal proceedings".)