Chinese Company Drops Defamation Suit
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The Chinese company where Apple iPods are made has decided to drop a defamation claim against two staffers at China Business News.  An investigation by Apple found no serious labor abuses, like child labor, at Hongfujin Precision Industry in Shenzhen, the BBC reports.
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TAIPEI - Taiwan&#39;s High Court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by opposition parties seeking to nullify the March presidential election and upheld President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s victory.
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A Beijing appeals court upheld a fraud conviction against a Chinese researcher for The New York Times.
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Nuclear trafficking charges against the owner of a South African engineering plant are dropped.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a unit of Boeing Co that charged the firm helped fly terrorism suspects abroad to secret prisons.
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(InfoWorld) - A district court judge in the U.S. state of Delaware has dismissed part of Advanced Micro Devices' lawsuit against Intel. The dismissed claims relate to alleged business practices of Intel that AMD claimsÂ affected sales of its own microprocessors. Intel petitioned the court toÂ have the claims dismissedÂ because it said that while AMD is headquartered in the U.S. it manufactures its processors in Germany and assembles them in Malaysia, Singapore and China. AMD is already seeking damages through the Japanese courts, European Commission and Korea Fair Trade Commission for the same business practices that are alleged in the U.S. lawsuit. Because the alleged harm was suffered outside the U.S. and because AMD is seeking redress overseas, Intel argued that the allegations fall outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts, according to a memorandum opinion from the court. AMD contended that it is not seeking such "foreign commerce claims" and that the x86 microprocessor market is a global market and that Intel's conduct in overseas markets had an effect on its business in the U.S. "AMD has not demonstrated that the alleged foreign conduct of Intel has direct, substantial and foreseeable effects in the U.S. which gives rise to its claim. AMD's allegations, taken in the light of the most favorable to AMD, describe a foreign effect and a foreign harm that have had ripple effects for the domestic market, but have not had any direct, substantial or reasonable effect which would give rise to an antitrust claim within the jurisdictional reach of the Sherman Act. Accordingly, the court will dismiss AMD's claims based on alleged lost sales of AMD's microprocessors to foreign customers," U.S. District Judge Joseph Farnan wrote in his conclusion. Chuck Mulloy, an Intel spokesman, said, "We are pleased that the judge appears to have agreed with out legal argument to remove those aspects of the case outside U.S. jurisdiction." He declined further comment until a conference with the judge takes place on Wednesday. AMD could not immediately be reached for comment. AMD, the long-time No. 2 player in the microprocessor market, jolted the IT industry in June last year when it filed its broad lawsuit against rival Intel. The suit alleged Intel had managed to maintain a monopoly in the PC processor market by illegally coercing customers around the world into using its products. The 48-page court filing identified 38 companies that, AMD alleged, had been coerced into using Intel processors at the expense of competing chips from AMD. Included are almost all of the large companies in the PC and server market, such as Dell, Sony, Gateway, and IBM. Among the allegation, AMD said Fujitsu Siemens Computers was offered a "special discount" on Celeron processors in return for hiding AMD-based computers on its Web site and removing references from its retail catalog. Also, at the 2004 Super Computing Show, an annual conference devoted to high performance computing, Intel offered computer makers money to remove AMD systems from their booths.
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American Blinds & Wallpaper Factory Inc. has dropped trademark infringement lawsuit against Google after a four-year fight.
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A court dropped its case against Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann and five others over a 2000 takeover battle, ending a legal saga that had weighed on the future of Germany's most prominent banker.
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The Rutgers womenâs basketball player who filed a defamation lawsuit against Don Imus and CBS Radio, among others, has withdrawn her suit.
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The disclosure this week that a Singapore-listed company controlled by a Chinese state-owned enterprise lost $550 million in derivatives transactions
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The move is expected to dampen prospects for companies that have focused on taking advantage of the Chinese market.
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The subcontractor accused of mistreating workers at an iPod factory in China dropped its libel suit against two reporters and the news organization they work for in Shanghai.
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A Siberian court on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the BP PLC's local subsidiary over the amount of gas it produces, opening the way for regulators to pull the license to the company's giant Kovykta gas field.
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Federal prosecutors Friday dropped a charge that an alleged fundraiser for the Palestinian militant group Hamas gave material support to terrorists &#151; a move that stunned defense attorneys.
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A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit filed by former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband against Vice President Cheney and top administration officials over the disclosure of Plame's name and covert status to the media.
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Pfizer has lost a Chinese court case aimed at protecting its rights to a popular Chinese translation of Viagra.
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A U.S. district court has dismissed a long running anti-trust case against VNU's market research company ACNielsen, brought by its rival Information Resources Inc., the Dutch publisher said on Friday.