Last week, the Commission utilized another, very troubling route to pursue its crusade: it injected its views on these patent litigation arrangements into a proposed settlement of a complaint it had filed to block a merger between two drug companies, Perrigo Company and Paddock Laboratories.

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By 1998, the Mexicans had had enough, and brought a formal complaint under the NAFTA dispute settlement system, and in 2001, prevailed with a unanimous panel decision that found the United States in violation of the agreement, and ruled that Mexican trucks meeting U.S. safety standards had to be given access to the U.S. market.

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This seems like the perfect outcome for a registered person wrongly named in and complaint and who became the inadvertent victim of seemingly benign settlement in which she played no role and contributed no money.

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Separately, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a Complaint in the Eastern District of New York and announced a settlement with Peterson.

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Under the terms of the Offer of Settlement, without admitting or denying the allegations in the Complaint, Respondent Witt consented to the entry of findings and violations and to the imposition of the sanctions.

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Under the terms of the Offer of Settlement, without admitting or denying the allegations in the Complaint, Respondent Ezra Demetrius Suber consented to the entry of findings and violations and to the imposition of the sanctions.

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Bloomberg's office referred calls Tuesday to the NYPD, which said it already gets plenty of oversight from its 700-person Internal Affairs Bureau, a civilian complaint board, a police corruption commission, prosecutors, judges and a 1985 federal court settlement that set guidelines for its intelligence-gathering.

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Jenny Sanford filed a complaint the next day, saying his visit on that night and several other occasions violated their divorce settlement.

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