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Myriad Genetics' Australian Cancer Gene Patents Go on Trial in Sydney
Cancer Voices Australia, a national organization representing people diagnosed with cancer, and Yvonne D'Arcy, a Brisbane resident diagnosed with breast cancer, sued Myriad Genetics and Genetic Technologies Ltd. in 2010 over a patent the companies have
Updated: 02/19/2012 06:03P
Petricevic takes the stand in Bridgecorp trial
Former Bridgecorp boss Rob Petricevic has taken the stand in the High Court at Auckland. Together with fellow former directors Robert Roest and Peter Steigrad, he's facing ten securities charges for allegedly misleading investors in the failed finance
Updated: 02/19/2012 05:49P
Murderer's request for execution presents challenge to South Dakota Supreme Court
Robert asked to be executed, but state law still requires the South Dakota Supreme Court to review the case and determine if the death sentence is proper. In most cases, those sentenced to die argue for mercy in appeals that can take a decade or more
Updated: 02/19/2012 05:34P
About 800 prospective jurors expected to be called for Topeka murder trial
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/wFKaPU ) that Chandler's trial starts March 5 with jury selection. The trial is expected to last three weeks. A court official says from the 800 prospective jurors called, 12 jurors and as many as five
Updated: 02/19/2012 05:33P
RNZ journalist murder accused remanded
Manuel Penera Robinson, 17, of Avalon, has been on bail and returned to Wellington District Court with his family for a brief court appearance. Judge June Johnston remanded him to be committed for trial and to appear at a plea evaluation hearing.
Updated: 02/19/2012 05:24P
Illness interrupts Urewera trial again
Jurors were told by Justice Rodney Hansen on Monday morning that the court would not be sitting on Monday or Tuesday, because a member of the jury was sick. The juror had provided a medical certificate, Fairfax reported. Last Thursday, proceedings were
Updated: 02/19/2012 05:24P
Goldman Sachs progammer released from prison
NEW YORK — Since his arrest nearly three years ago, Sergey Aleynikov, a former programmer at Goldman Sachs, has acknowledged violating the bank's confidentiality policy by downloading source code from company computers. He also insisted that it was not
Updated: 02/19/2012 05:24P
Trial to begin for Clementi suicide
Dharun Ravi allegedly used his laptop and camera to record and Internet-broadcast his Rutgers University dorm roommate Tyler Clementi with another man in 2010, leading to Clementi's suicide, prosecutors say. Charged with spying, Ravi's trial in
Updated: 02/19/2012 05:20P
Urewera trial on hold as juror calls in sick
Justice Rodney Hansen said he had received a medical certificate from the juror. "Go out and make the best of the sunny weather,'' he told the court this morning. The trial, into its second week, was due to hear from two teenagers who attended one of
Updated: 02/19/2012 05:18P
Ex-judge: Turkey in for scolding by Euro court
The European Court of Human Rights will certainly condemn Turkey over journalist Tuncay zkan's three-year imprisonment in the Ergenekon case, a former Turkish judge at the European court has said, dismissing suggestions that the court approved of
Updated: 02/19/2012 05:14P
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