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January 31, 2003 Previous Headlines   US Airways Seeks Approval to End Pilot Pension Plan US Airways Group Inc., the seventh-largest U.S. carrier, is seeking court approval to terminate its pilot

  February 4, 2003 Nickles Drafting Measure To Restrict Asbestos Litigation A spokeswoman for Senate Budget Chairman Don Nickles (R-Okla.) confirmed on Friday that he is drafting an asbestos

    February 11 , 2003   Senate Judiciary Committee Sets Asbestos Litigation Hearing CongressDaily reported that the Senate Judiciary Committee is planning an early March hearing on asbestos

  February 12, 2003 ABA Approves Asbestos Litigation Resolution The American Bar Association's (ABA) House of Delegates yesterday voted to approve a resolution requiring asbestos litigants to meet

  February 6, 2003 Bill to Curb Class-Action Lawsuits Introduced in Senate As anticipated, Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), along with Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)

  February 10, 2003 Pacific Gas Creditors Won't Get to Vote on Reorganization Again Creditors of PG&E Corp.'s Pacific Gas & Electric Co. won't get another chance to vote on two competing

  February 7, 2003 U.S. Consumer Borrowing Up $3.5 Billion in December U.S. consumer borrowing rose by $3.5 billion in December, completing the slowest quarter for borrowing in more than a decade

  February 5, 2003 Attorneys' Group To Join Asbestos Litigation Debate The nation's largest lawyers group is jumping into the debate over multibillion-dollar asbestos lawsuits and, in an unusual move

  February 21, 2003 Bankruptcy Reform Back on Congress's Agenda Bankruptcy reform will be back on the agenda in March, as the House Judiciary Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee has

  February 13, 2003 United Provides Some Specifics on New Airline United Airlines plans to shift about 30 percent of its domestic capacity into the new discount airline that the carrier hopes to form