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[IMAGE] Ford Settles Ignition Suit; Could Cost Automaker $2.7 Billion Th=
e Associated Press Ford Motor Co. agreed Thursday to reimburse current and =
former owners for repairs on millions of cars and trucks prone to stall bec=
ause of a flawed ignition system. The deal approved by a California judge c=
ould cost the automaker $2.7 billion, plaintiffs said. The settlement was a=
pproved as the beleaguered automaker weathers a series of setbacks, includi=
ng an erosion in sales and the costly Firestone tire situation. Full Text=
Coming Down Hard Miami Daily Business Review Legal activists, crimina=
l defense lawyers and journalists are decrying a package of anti-terrorism =
bills under consideration by the Florida Senate, saying the proposed legisl=
ation attacks the First and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and s=
eriously constricts the state's traditionally permissive open records. Legi=
slators, however, defended the proposals as "narrowly drawn." Full Text =
Michigan Lawyers Clash Over Bench Balance The National Law Journal Michi=
gan plaintiffs' lawyers charge that decisions by Michigan appellate courts =
have strongly favored insurers, manufacturers and big business in general s=
ince Republican Gov. John Engler took office with promises of tort reform. =
As a result of new legislation and more conservative judges, they allege, t=
he climate for plaintiffs' lawyers in Michigan has become the worst of any =
state in the nation. Full Text Part-Time Lawyer Sues Harvey Pennington =
Firm for Four Years' Back Wages American Lawyer Media A respected employme=
nt attorney who until last summer worked in the New York office of Harvey, =
Pennington, Cabot, Griffith & Renneisen has sued the Philadelphia-based fir=
m in federal court in New York, seeking nearly four years of backpay. The c=
ase represents an employment dispute between parties who themselves are sop=
histicated experts in the field of employment law. The firm disputes Michel=
Lee's billing practices. Full Text 9th Circuit Limits Prior Owner's CER=
CLA Liability The Recorder The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-3=
Wednesday that landowners who once owned contaminated property but did not=
hing to contribute to its contamination aren't liable for cleanup costs. In=
the closely watched environmental law case, the court reversed an earlier =
three-judge panel decision holding so-called intervening landowners liable =
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purchase. Limit 5 per customer. Pennsylvania Bar Exam Nets 71.8 Percent P=
ass Rate The Legal Intelligencer For the 1,313 law school graduates who to=
ok the Pennsylvania Bar Exam in July, months of poring over treaties and te=
xts paid off. The Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners announced that 71.8 p=
ercent of applicants who sat for the July test successfully completed the e=
xam with test scores of equal to or greater than 272 for the combined multi=
state bar exam and essay/multistate performance. Full Text [IMAGE] La =
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ments for e-filing. Click here . The Ukrainian Connection The Recorder =
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian Pavel Lazarenko rose from low=
ly engineer to prime minister of his country. But his meteoric rise ended w=
hen he fled corruption charges leveled by Ukrainian officials. Now being he=
ld in a U.S. federal detention center, Lazarenko will ask a federal judge i=
n San Francisco today to rule that he cannot be prosecuted in the U.S. for =
events that took place half a world away. Full Text Duty and Loss The =
National Law Journal Craig D. Bell is the chairman of tax litigation at Ric=
hmond, Va.'s McGuireWoods, but he's also a lieutenant colonel and judge adv=
ocate general in the U.S. Army Reserves. After the Sept. 11 attack on the P=
entagon, the government assembled lawyers like Bell to guide the survivors =
through a thicket of legal issues, from accessing a dead spouse's bank acco=
unt to determining child custody to finalizing an estate. Full Text [IMA=
GE] Hold on '.biz' Domain Names Lifted The Associated Press A preliminar=
y injunction entered by a California court holding up to as many as 58,000 =
Internet addresses ending in ".biz" will be lifted after the plaintiffs in =
a suit over domain name registration procedures failed to come up with the =
required bond. Although NeuLevel Inc., the operator of ".biz," denies that =
it ran an illegal lottery, the Los Angeles-based company may nevertheless r=
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