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...Services office. Judy Freiberg, who has a great deal of experience in domestic abuse and custody disputes, took the case. At the trial last fall, according to Freiberg, after the judge heard testimony including statements from the children, he urged the parties to settle. Under the terms of the settlement, Gary may exercise his visiting rights only by picking up and dropping off the kids at the police station. Margaret, 41, now has a permanent restraining order, as well as her first full-time job, at a yarn factory, and hopes to save the $350 she needs to change...
Microsoft Corp. won a major legal victory today when a federal appeals court reinstated a favorable 1994 Justice Department settlement of an antitrust case against the firm. The settlement had been rejected in February by federal judge Stanley Sporkin. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit also rebuked Sporkin for exceeding his authority. Sporkin's controversial ruling broadly condemned Microsoft's tactics as "monopolistic" and drew Justice Department fire as "an invitation to anarchy in the enforcement of antitrust law." Now, Microsoft is back where it was a year ago: "They dodged the bullet," saysTIME...
...many women are claiming damages from a landmark, $4.25 billion settlement over breast implants that each may receive just 5 percent of what she was promised. "There are just too many sick women," Ralph Knowles, the plaintiffs' attorney in the class-action suit, announced today. "I didn't think it was going to be anything like that. If I did, we would never have agreed to the $4.25 billion." Discussions are underway to convince Dow Corning, Bristol-Myers Squibb and other implant makers to add billions more to what is already the largest product-liability settlement in U.S. history...
...they left hostages behind. A second option would involve NATO's getting tougher with the genocidal, hostage-taking Serbs, but that might lead down a path of commitment for which no Western government has the stomach. Or NATO and the U.N. could simply soldier on, hoping for a diplomatic settlement but perhaps only buying some time until the next crisis...
...goal of a serious policy, says Council on Foreign Relations president Leslie Gelb, "should be a settlement along the lines of the territorial division already approved by" Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. That scheme contemplates a roughly fifty-fifty split of Bosnia. "There's no hope for a nice, multiethnic society," says Gelb. "The parties will keep fighting till they're together" with their brethren. "So, up front, we should propose that the Serbs in Bosnia confederate with Serbia and move people so they're living in areas contiguous to Serbia itself...