First I met Democrat Jim Matheson of Utah in the U.S. Capitol Building.

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But then all of a sudden, in February 2004, an antidumping petition against imports of magnesium from China and Russia was filed by the U.S. industry, which comprised just one producer, U.S. Magnesium Corp. of Utah with about 370 employees.

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Finally, the U.S. District Court in Utah recently upheld NOVL's ownership of Unix copyrights.

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The loony award got all the way through the Utah court system and was overturned only because it attracted the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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For the 2010 elections, a Utah Republican running for U.S. Senate may get the nod for most ingenious use of technology.

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Aho's Salt Lake City, Utah, software firm, ClearPlay , is one of several small companies fighting off a suit in U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado, brought by 16 famed Hollywood directors and eight large studios, for selling cleaned-up versions of popular videos to squeamish parents.

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