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Ford wins reversal of $105 million industry secrets and techniques U.S. courtroom award

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million for breaching a 2004 licensing assurance and misappropriating industry secrets and techniques. ” Legal professionals for Versata didn’t in an instant reply to demands for remark. of what Austin, Texas-based Versata had sought. to pay Versata Device Inc $104.6 For that reason the damages awards cannot stand.”

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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Texas saw the greatest increase over the period (+16%). Landfill emissions are also emerging as a policy challenge, having risen every single year since 2004 in California, and shooting up 7.4% As landfills are burdened with an increasing amount of waste, landfill emissions have gone up every single year since 2004.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. Even something as simple as putting in an order at a McDonald’s drive-through in Illinois has raised legal questions about collecting biometric data without consent. In 2004, Singh fielded her first query about hoax callers from the Coast Guard.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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July, 2009 : A NASA satellite study found that Arctic sea ice had thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record ( earlier post ). “ Internationally, we reject legally binding emissions. We can’t run away from it.”

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