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  The Federal Circuit overturned a $78.9 million verdict against DirecTV in a patent dispute with California-based Finisar Corp. over broadcasting technology.
    Finisar’s patent covers a system for broadcasting video and audio programs through high-speed satellite or cable links.
    A jury in 2006 concluded that DirecTV had willfully infringed on seven patent claims [...]

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JONATHAN Clayton, The Times’s Africa correspondent, has arrived safely in Johannesburg after being imprisoned, tortured and interrogated by the Zimbabwean security services.
Clayton was arrested last Wednesday on a minor immigration charge when he flew into Bulawayo, the country’s second-largest city.
He was quickly handed over by the police to security services, who blindfolded and handcuffed him, [...]

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The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency – a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.
Using authority granted by Congress, the government also plans to collect DNA samples from foreigners who are detained, whether [...]

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In a shareholder’s class action that neatly summarizes complaints about Schering-Plough Corp.’s sales of its cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin, the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System claims: “Sixteen months after completion of a study showing that its two most profitable drugs had no greater health benefit than far cheaper generic competitors – and may even be [...]

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The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Washington state constitution does not provide a right for prison inmates to starve themselves to death. Convicted arsonist Charles R. McNabb sued the Washington State Department of Corrections to stop his force-feeding. McNabb pursued his case under the Article I, Section 7 guarantee of privacy enshrined [...]

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Court documents say the 16-year-old girl whose call triggered the police raid on a polygamist sect’s Texas compound said that her husband beat her.The San Angelo Standard-Times newspaper is citing the court documents as also saying the girl was the seventh wife of a sect member who is named in an arrest warrant on possible [...]

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