Also. . .

* Banks that operate in California will appear in federal court in San Francisco today in a bid to block Santa Monica and San Francisco laws banning surcharges on non-customers who use their automated-teller machines.

* Pfizer Inc. will ask a judge in Delaware today to speed up the drug maker’s lawsuit that could punch holes in the merger agreement between Warner-Lambert Co. and American Home Products Corp. Warner-Lambert’s $71-billion pact with AHP contains two provisions designed to discourage competing offers.