Novartis called the ruling a "setback for patients, " and said patent protection is crucial to fostering investment in research to develop new and better drugs.
Teacher Teresa Meredith, the main plaintiff in the lawsuit and vice president of the Indiana State Teachers Association, called the ruling a setback for public education.
Will Johnson, chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of BC, called the ruling a "radical decision" and said it disregarded evidence of harm in places where assisted suicide was legal.
The German Bishops' Conference, part of the Catholic Church, called the ruling a "victory for human dignity, " and said it strengthened its view that a human being begins life at the moment of conception.
Principal Mark Lehain said the school was "absolutely delighted" and called the ruling "a great decision for parental choice".
For the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey said the foreign secretary should have been "more contrite" following the ruling, and he called for a judicial inquiry into the case.
Lord Owen does not think the bill should be passed until the House of Lords have had "at the very least" a chance to debate the freedom of information ruling that a document called NHS Transitional Risk Register should be disclosed.
The BHA sought the legal ruling in a joint action with a group called the Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, which says any new schools in the area should be open to all children.
The company called for the court to reverse the injunction issued last month and to issue a ruling that would more definitively address peer-to-peer technologies.
The Dragons struggled to contain a chip through from the first major Irish attack, the video referee called in to play before ruling out Conor O'Loughlin's grounding because of a Connacht knock-on.
But Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon said the government had "utmost respect" for the ruling, while the head of the Madrid regional government, Esperanza Aguirre of the PP, called it a "happy day".
The Georgia ruling comes atop a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case involving a Connecticut case called Kelo versus the City of New London.
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The leader of Bahrain's main opposition party has called on the UK government to act as a mediator with the ruling al-Khalifa family if progress towards democracy remains stalled in the troubled Gulf state.
Mr Armitage called the ruling "unfair", and pledged to continue to serve as a councillor.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called the ruling "judicial colonialism" and said her government would not pay a single dollar.
London Mayor Boris Johnson, who favours building a new airport east of London, has called for the issue to be settled once and for all by ruling out a new runway beyond 2015.
The ruling is a powerful rebuke of the so-called cy pres doctrine, a legal theory that has sprung up, despite dubious academic credentials, to deal with an intractable problem with class actions: Unclaimed funds.
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Mr Johnson, who favours building a new airport east of London, has called for the issue to be settled once and for all by ruling out a new runway beyond 2015 - the scheduled date of the next election.
The chairman of Germany's Social Democrat party Sigmar Gabriel called his socialist counterpart in Paris a "victim of slander" by the ruling coalition and by Merkel personally in a recent interview with German daily Die Welt.
So it surprised many when in 2005 Souter wrote a landmark cyber-age ruling in the so-called "Grokster" case.
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The Saudi state, however, is built on an implicit alliance between the ruling family and followers of a puritan version of Islam sometimes called Wahhabism.
Apple boss Tim Cook had called the lawsuit a "silly sideshow" but has complied with the judge's ruling.
After the ruling not to merge school districts, a group of people who called themselves "Joshua Intervenors" sued the Little Rock district, saying it had not done enough to desegregate.
Rajeev Shukla, the secretary of India's ruling Congress party and a friend of Khan's, told CNN that the actor called him from Newark, as well as Khan's secretary and family.
The ruling was seen as a victory for the beverage industry, restaurants and other business groups that called the rule unfair and wrong-headed.
After he lost a parliamentary race back in his hometown in April 2000, Roh's supporters launched a fan club called Nosamo ("Roh lovers group"), whose Web site played a big role in his rise in the ruling Millennium Democratic Party this year.
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