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[IMAGE]   Ford Settles Ignition Suit; Could Cost Automaker $2.7 Billion  The Associated Press Ford Motor Co. agreed Thursday to reimburse current and former owners for repairs on millions of cars and trucks prone to stall because of a flawed ignition system. The deal approved by a California judge could cost the automaker $2.7 billion, plaintiffs said. The settlement was approved as the beleaguered automaker weathers a series of setbacks, including an erosion in sales and the costly Firestone tire situation.   Full Text     Coming Down Hard  Miami Daily Business Review Legal activists, criminal defense lawyers and journalists are decrying a package of anti-terrorism bills under consideration by the Florida Senate, saying the proposed legislation attacks the First and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and seriously constricts the state's traditionally permissive open records. Legislators, however, defended the proposals as "narrowly drawn."  Full Text     Michigan Lawyers Clash Over Bench Balance  The National Law Journal Michigan plaintiffs' lawyers charge that decisions by Michigan appellate courts have strongly favored insurers, manufacturers and big business in general since Republican Gov. John Engler took office with promises of tort reform. As a result of new legislation and more conservative judges, they allege, the 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 employment attorney who until last summer worked in the New York office of Harvey, Pennington, Cabot, Griffith & Renneisen has sued the Philadelphia-based firm in federal court in New York, seeking nearly four years of backpay. The case represents an employment dispute between parties who themselves are sophisticated experts in the field of employment law. The firm disputes Michel Lee's billing practices. Full Text    9th Circuit Limits Prior Owner's CERCLA Liability  The Recorder The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-3 Wednesday that landowners who once owned contaminated property but did nothing 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 for cleanup costs. Full Text    ADVERTISEMENT  Free Monitor with the purchase of a NetVista!  Get a Free IBM 15" (13.8" viewable) Monitor with the purchase of any NetVista system (excluding X Series)! See special savings on upgrades, as well. This offer is in addition to the standard ABA Member Advantage 10% discount. To receive your 10% discount (and take advantage of this offer), either call  800-426-7235, extension 5242 or  click here .  Hurry, this offer ends 11/5/2001!  Shipping and handling not included. Offer valid in the US, through November 5, 2001. Limit one promotion per qualifying purchase. Limit 5 per customer.   Pennsylvania Bar Exam Nets 71.8 Percent Pass Rate  The Legal Intelligencer For the 1,313 law school graduates who took the Pennsylvania Bar Exam in July, months of poring over treaties and texts paid off. The Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners announced that 71.8 percent of applicants who sat for the July test successfully completed the exam with test scores of equal to or greater than 272 for the combined multistate bar exam and essay/multistate performance. Full Text    [IMAGE]   La Vida Lawyer: The Tenor of Tempranillo  law.com From inhospitable terrain, intolerable heat and enduring cold, springs the Tempranillo vine, the very vertebra of Spanish wine. La Vida Lawyer gives the historically overlooked Spanish wine its due, focusing on the delicious bargains found in the Ribera del Duero and Priorat regions. From there we board the latest Porsche Carrera coupe and set off at high speed to high culture: The Hague.  Full Text    ADVERTISEMENT  FREE  Acrobat Legal Solutions CD!  Beat your court filing deadlines. Acrobat 5.0 makes it easy to create Adobe PDF files for e-filing, document review...and so much more. Purchase Acrobat 5.0 by November 30, 2001, and get the FREE  Acrobat Legal Solutions CD, a valuable resource that includes a step-by-step demonstration on how to create and assemble documents for e-filing.  Click here .   The Ukrainian Connection  The Recorder After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian Pavel Lazarenko rose from lowly engineer to prime minister of his country. But his meteoric rise ended when he fled corruption charges leveled by Ukrainian officials. Now being held in a U.S. federal detention center, Lazarenko will ask a federal judge in 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 Richmond, Va.'s McGuireWoods, but he's also a lieutenant colonel and judge advocate general in the U.S. Army Reserves. After the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, the government assembled lawyers like Bell to guide the survivors through a thicket of legal issues, from accessing a dead spouse's bank account to determining child custody to finalizing an estate. Full Text    [IMAGE]   Hold on '.biz' Domain Names Lifted  The Associated Press A preliminary 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 revise its registration procedures. 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