BUSINESS MEMO: REVIVING OWL LAWSUIT

Reviving a lawsuit over the northern spotted owl, a federal appeals court cleared the way for a new timber industry challenge to Northwest logging reductions President Clinton ordered three years ago. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a 1996 ruling by a federal judge that said challenges to Clinton's Northwest forest plan must go before a federal judge in Seattle that already had reviewed related cases. The case goes back to the same federal judge...