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Drug maker loses India patent battle
NEW DELHI (AP) ? India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's right to patent a new version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that healthcare activists say ensures the poor will get continued access to cheap, generic versions of lifesaving medicines.
Novartis had argued that it needed to new patent to protect its investment in the cancer drug Glivec while activists said the company was trying to use loopholes to make more money out of a drug whose patent had expired.
The cheap medicines produced by India's $26 billion generic drug industry are a lifeline for the poor in many developing countries.
The ruling sets a precedent that will prevent international pharmaceutical companies from obtaining fresh patents in India on updated versions of existing drugs, said Pratibha Singh, a lawyer for the Indian generic drug manufacturer Cipla.
The court ruled that a patent could only be given to a new drug, she told reporters outside the court.
"Patents will be given only for genuine inventions, and repetitive patents will not be given for minor tweaks to an existing drug," Singh said.
Novartis has fought a legal battle in India since 2006 for a fresh patent for its leukemia drug Gleevec, known in India and Europe as Glivec.
India's patent office had rejected the company's patent application because it was not a new medicine but an amended version of its earlier product.
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Texas DA's killing puts other prosecutors on alert
This undated photo taken from the Kaufman County, Texas, website shows Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland. McLelland and his wife were found killed in their house, Saturday, March 30, 2013, two months after one of his assistants was gunned down near their office, authorities said. (AP Photo/Kaufman County)
This undated photo taken from the Kaufman County, Texas, website shows Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland. McLelland and his wife were found killed in their house, Saturday, March 30, 2013, two months after one of his assistants was gunned down near their office, authorities said. (AP Photo/Kaufman County)
Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes, center, walks away after a news conference in Kaufman, Texas, on Sunday March 31, 2013. On Saturday, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were murdered in their home. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)
Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes, right, speaks at a news conference, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Kaufman, Texas. On Saturday, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were murdered in their home. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)
A Kaufman County Sheriff's deputy walks near the taped-off property of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, near Forney, Texas, on Sunday, March 31, 2013. On Saturday, McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were murdered in their home. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)
In this Saturday, March 30, 2013 photo, authorities work in the middle of Blarney Stone Way where Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and wife Cynthia McLelland were found dead in their home in Forney, Texas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Ian C. Bates) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT; AP MEMBERS ONLY
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) ? After one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down in January, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland carried a gun everywhere, even when walking the dog.
He was extra careful when answering the door at his home outside of Forney, about 20 miles east of Dallas. And a neighbor said a sheriff's deputy was stationed outside the home for about a month after the killing.
On Saturday, McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot to death in their house. Authorities haven't said much about their investigation, including whether they have any leads or a theory about why the couple was killed. But law enforcement throughout Texas is on high alert, and steps are being taken to better protect other DAs and their staffs.
Tarrant County District Attorney Joe Shannon said his staff has been cautioned, but he declined to discuss the specific security measures that have been taken. Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins declined to comment on the issue, citing safety concerns.
Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson said he accepted the Houston sheriff's offer of 24-hour security for him and his family after learning about the slayings, mostly over concerns for his family's safety. Anderson said he also would take precautions at his office, the largest one in Texas, which has more than 270 prosecutors.
"I think district attorneys across Texas are still in a state of shock," Anderson said Sunday.
Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes said little at a brief news conference Sunday about the McLelland investigation, and he deflected questions about possible suspects. He said security would be stepped up at the courthouse in Kaufman, but he declined to say what other steps might be taken to protect the other prosecutors in McLelland's office. The DA's Office will remain closed Monday.
McLelland, 63, is the 13th prosecutor killed in the U.S. since the National Association of District Attorneys began keeping count in the 1960s.
The couple's slayings came less than two weeks after Colorado's prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by an ex-convict, and a couple of months after Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was killed in a parking lot a block from his courthouse office. No arrests have been made in Hasse's slaying Jan. 31.
Byrnes would not give details Sunday of how the killings unfolded and said there was nothing to indicate for certain whether the DA's slaying was connected to Hasse's.
El Paso County, Colo., sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Joe Roybal said investigators had found no evidence so far connecting the Texas killings to the Colorado case, but added: "We're examining all possibilities."
Colorado's corrections director, Tom Clements, was killed March 19 when he answered the doorbell at his home outside Colorado Springs. Evan Spencer Ebel, a white supremacist and former Colorado inmate suspected of shooting Clements, died in a shootout with Texas deputies two days later about 100 miles from Kaufman.
McLelland himself, in an Associated Press interview shortly after the Colorado slaying, raised the possibility that Hasse was gunned down by a white supremacist gang.
McLelland, elected DA in 2010, said his office had prosecuted several cases against racist gangs, who have a strong presence around Kaufman County, a mostly rural area dotted with subdivisions, with a population of about 104,000.
"We put some real dents in the Aryan Brotherhood around here in the past year," he said.
In recent years, the DA's office also prosecuted a case in which a justice of the peace was found guilty of theft and burglary and another case in which a man was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter.
McLelland said he carried a gun everywhere around town, a bedroom community for the Dallas area. He figured assassins were more likely to try to attack him outside. He said he had warned all his employees to be constantly on the alert.
"The people in my line of work are going to have to get better at it," he said of dealing with the danger, "because they're going to need it more in the future."
The number of attacks on prosecutors, judges and senior law enforcement officers in the U.S. has spiked in the past three years, according to Glenn McGovern, an investigator with the Santa Clara County, Calif., district attorney's office who tracks such cases.
For about a month after Hasse's slaying, sheriff's deputies were parked in the district attorney's driveway, said Sam Rosander, a McLelland neighbor.
The FBI and the Texas Rangers joined the investigation into the McLellands' deaths.
McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, 65, were the parents of two daughters and three sons. One son is a police officer in Dallas. The couple had moved into the home a few years ago, Forney Mayor Darren Rozell said.
"Real friendly, became part of our community quickly," Rozell said. "They were a really pleasant, happy couple."
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Riccardi reported from Denver. Associated Press writers Michael Graczyk in Houston, Angela K. Brown in Fort Worth and P. Solomon Banda in Denver contributed to this report.
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Bipartisan group pushes appeals judge confirmation
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A dozen lawyers who served Democratic and Republican presidents are pushing for the confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominee to the federal appeals court in Washington.
The letter signed by attorneys who have represented the federal government before the Supreme Court comes after Caitlin Halligan withdrew her nomination to the District of Columbia Circuit after being blocked by Republicans. That leaves Sri Srinivasan, (SREEN-i-vah-san) the principal deputy solicitor general, as the only nominee to fill one of four vacancies on the short-staffed circuit.
Monday's letter to the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee argues Srinivasan has "a first-rate intellect" and "unimpeachable character." It was signed by six Republicans and six Democrats who served as either solicitor general or the No. 2 in that office, including Ken Starr and Ted Olson.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bipartisan-group-pushes-appeals-judge-confirmation-205821608.html
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Pope makes Easter pleas for Mideast peace
Pope Francis, holding the pastoral staff, celebrates the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. "Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!" said Pope Francis during the Easter vigil. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis, holding the pastoral staff, celebrates the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. "Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!" said Pope Francis during the Easter vigil. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis, holding the pastoral staff, walks past the closed icon of Jesus as he celebrates the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. "Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!" said Pope Francis during the Easter vigil. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis, holding the pastoral staff, celebrates the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. "Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!" said Pope Francis during the Easter vigil.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis celebrates the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the the Vatican Sunday, March 31, 2013. "Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!" said Pope Francis during the Easter vigil. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Faithful hold a heart shaped banner reading in Italian "Pope Francis we love you. Happy Easter" in St. Peter's square at the Vatican on the occasion of the celebration of the Easter mass Sunday, March 31, 2013. "Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!" said Pope Francis during the Easter vigil. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Pope Francis is making an Easter Sunday peace plea, saying conflicts have lasted too long in Syria, and between Israelis and Palestinians.
Francis also urges reconciliation on the Korean peninsula, where North Korea says it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea.
Before a crowd of 250,000 in St. Peter's Square he also denounced warfare and terrorism in Africa, and decried a greedy affluent world looking for "easy gain."
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Colorado prosecutors seek death penalty for accused cinema gunman
By Keith Coffman
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Colorado will seek the death penalty for accused movie theater gunman James Holmes in the 2012 slaying of 12 people during a showing of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises," the lead prosecutor said in court on Monday.
Holmes, a 25-year-old former graduate student of neuroscience, is accused of opening fire inside a suburban Denver multiplex during a midnight screening of the movie last July in a rampage that ranked as one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States.
It was one of several last year, including the December attack on an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 20 children and six staff members, re-igniting a national debate over gun violence and the limits of the constitutionally protected right to bear firearms.
Holmes is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the shooting spree, which also wounded 58 moviegoers. A dozen other people suffered non-gunshot injuries as they fled the Aurora, Colorado, cinema.
At the start of the latest court hearing, George Brauchler, the District Attorney for Araphoe County who is leading the prosecution, formally declared his intention to seek a death sentence should Holmes be convicted.
"My determination for James Eagan Holmes -- justice is death," Brauchler told the judge.
Holmes, bearded with shaggy dark hair, showed no visible emotion as he sat silently at the defense table, shackled and wearing red prison garb and flanked by his lawyers. When he first entered the chamber, the accused glanced briefly at his parents, who were sitting with spectators in the courtroom.
There was an audible gasp from the victims' side of the courtroom, and Holmes parents looked grimly at one another, as Brauchler said he would pursue capital punishment in the case.
A new trial date was set for February 3, 2014.
Brauchler had previously announced he had assigned a death-penalty specialist to the prosecution team, and in court documents released March 28 he rejected a suggestion by defense lawyers that Holmes plead guilty in exchange for a life prison term without the possibility of parole.
Last month, Judge William Sylvester entered a not guilty plea on Holmes' behalf, but said he would consider allowing that plea to be changed to not guilty by reason of insanity.
While Holmes' attorneys said in a filing last week they are prepared to mount an insanity defense, they also wrote that their client was "willing to resolve the case to bring the proceedings to a speedy and definite conclusion for all involved" in return for a plea deal that would spare his life.
Brauchler, in a written response, called the defense move improper at this stage of the case, saying, "it was filed for the intended purpose of generating the predictable pretrial publicity."
"The only conclusion that an objective reader would reach ... is that the defendant knows that he is guilty, the defense attorneys know he is guilty and that both of them know that he was not criminally insane," Brauchler wrote.
In court pleadings, public defenders Daniel King and Tamara Brady have said Holmes has been hospitalized twice since his arrest, once for "potential self-inflicted injuries."
At one point, jailers determined Holmes was a danger to himself and in "immediate need of a psychiatric evaluation." He was transported by ambulance to a Denver psychiatric ward "where he was held for several days, frequently in restraints," his lawyers wrote.
(Reporting by Keith Coffman and Jann Tracey; Editing by G Crosse, Steve Gorman and Grant McCool)
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PFT: Crabtree says QB change divided SF lockerroom
Getty ImagesThe play of Ravens OLB Terrell Suggs and Bengals CB Leon Hall after Achilles injuries gives?Dolphins CB Brett Grimes hope.
Will the Jets?add another back?in the draft?
A look at what prospects are being linked to the Bills in various mock drafts.
There are some fine candidates now eligible for the Patriots? Hall of Fame.
The Ravens? Super Bowl win doesn?t figure to hurt their ability to build their brand.
The Bengals have brought back the majority?of their unrestricted free agents.
The Browns? uniform-changing process?is a 24-month project.
Former Steelers S Will Allen reportedly made some interesting comments about the difference between the approach of the offense and defense in Pittsburgh.
Texans DE J.J. Watt will throw out the first pitch?in Sunday?s Rangers-Astros game.
The Colts have had a solid offseason, but there?s work left to be done.
One take on how Jaguars QB Blaine Gabbert improved last season.
Two plays involving the Titans ? one good, one not-so-good ? are still alive in a vote for the greatest in history.
The official website of the Chiefs took a closer look at Florida State DE Bjoern Werner.
A take on the beginning and (seeming) end?of the Carson Palmer era in Oakland.
The Chargers are pledging $250,000 in nutritional- and athletic-related grants.
What secondary players would be good fit for the Broncos?
A look at where some of the Eagles? free agents have landed.
The Cowboys were adept at scoring points near the end of halves and games last season.
Redskins QB Robert Griffin III apparently met?President Barack Obama on Saturday.
A take on the risk Giants WR Victor Cruz?could be taking if he doesn?t strike a longer-term deal this offseason.
The University of Illinois football team?will play?at Soldier Field, home of the Bears, for the first time in 19 years.
Do the Packers and Brett Favre still need more time apart before mending fences?
The Lions have an intriguing?new safety tandem.
Former Vikings defensive lineman Alan Page has written a?rather unique children?s book.
Former Falcons player Antoine Harris has been impressed with Mike Smith from the start.
Add Saints head coach Sean Payton?to the list of those amazed?by LeBron James.
Can Derek Landri supply some interior pressure?for the Buccaneers?
A WR prospect is working out?for the Panthers.
A take on how the Rams are building their roster.
The expansion Seahawks found a gem in the 1976 allocation draft.
Former Cardinals assistant Deshea Townsend is now Mississippi State?s DBs coach.
How will the 49ers use all of those draft picks?
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