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* Stephen Gordon, founder and chairman of Corte Madera, Calif.-based Restoration Hardware Inc., resigned to become chief executive of Sundance Catalog Co. Restoration Hardware Chief Executive Gary Friedman was named interim chairman.

* A lawyer specializing in freedom of speech and the Internet said he would defend free of charge a 19-year-old publisher of a website accused in a lawsuit of revealing trade secrets about a new computer from Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Computer Inc.

* Employees at a second Canadian store of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. won the right to bargain with the world’s largest retailer on a ruling from the labor board in the province of Quebec.