March 29, 2001 Hearing Scheduled for Upcoming Trial At press time, a pre-trial hearing before Judge William H. Orrick Jr. was scheduled in San Francisco for Thursday, March 29. At the hearing, it is expected that the court will address procedural issues for the trial. With the trial against the chains set to open on Monday, April 9, ABA is gearing up to provide up-to-the-minute coverage of the legal story in both BTW and in a special e-mail publication, ABA Litigation Update. Covering the trial in San Francisco will be Hut Landon, the executive director of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association. Landon will provide daily dispatches on the developments in the courtroom. (In addition to his background as a bookseller and regional association executive director, Landon was the assistant publisher and managing editor of the Pacific Sun, an alternative weekly in Marin County.) To receive ABA Litigation Update, send an e-mail to [email protected] and fill in the subject as "Opt-in to ABA Legal Update." In the body of your e-mail, please indicate the address at which you would like to receive your e-mail if it is not the same one from which you are e-mailing us, and include the addresses of any of your colleagues who would like to receive these daily updates. Topics: Fair Trade (B&N, Borders), About ABA,