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Apple’s injunction request denied
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has denied a legal request by Apple Inc.
to ban U.S. sales of Samsung smart-phone models that a jury in August said illegally used Apple technology.
In a ruling issued Monday night, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh turned down the request.
Koh’s ruling comes after Apple this summer was awarded $1.05 billion in damages after a jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the iPhone and iPad.
Earlier this year, Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny had claimed that Samsung “willfully” made a business decision to copy Apple’s iPad and iPhone, and he called the jury’s $1.05 billion award a “slap in the wrist.”
In turn, Samsung lawyer Charles Verhoeven had argued that Apple was trying to tie up Samsung in courts around the world rather than competing with it head-on.
N.J. train-wreck report lacks cause
PAULSBORO, N.J. - The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday released its preliminary report on a New Jersey train derailment that caused a leak of 180,000 pounds of a hazardous material, but it doesn’t say what caused the accident.
The report said that readings from a data recorder showed the train was moving at 7 mph when it derailed on a swivel-style rail bridge overt Mantua Creek in Paulsboro, a community across the Delaware River from Philadelphia International Airport, on Nov. 30.
That is below the speed limit of 10 mph on the bridge.
Safety board chairman Deborah Hersman has previously said the agency is also looking into the mechanisms that lock the bridge into place.
A tanker car ruptured in last month’s accident, releasing vinyl chloride into the air, leading to the evacuation of more than 300 families and businesses.
Congress to get Benghazi findings
WASHINGTON - An independent investigation into the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, is complete, and Congress will be briefed on its findings this week, the State Department said Monday.
The classified report by the Accountability Review Board will be sent to Capitol Hill today. The board was established to examine the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
An unclassified version of the report is expected to be released to the public after board chairman Thomas Pickering, a former ambassador, and Adm. Mike Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appear at Wednesday’s hearings, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said.
The House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees will then hear open testimony on the report Thursday, Nuland said.
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