Its draft offer document, now being shown around by Morgan Stanley, reveals an American court case.

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Not that Vodafone has made life easy for itself since publishing its offer document two days before Christmas.

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According to the offer document for California's latest issue, there have been at least a dozen court decisions against tobacco companies.

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As for the Royal Bank bid, NatWest said it would respond to that in greater detail once the Scottish bank released its offer document later this week.

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It will offer 50 GB of cloud document storage, "priority" access to the servers, a Web browser, and the ability to install some added programs.

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Negotiations over the next US budget are expected to run into the summer, but the White House says the document released on Wednesday is not an opening offer.

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Olivetti must make sure that the document clears administrative and legal hurdles by April 25th so that the offer can start before the end of the month, or it lapses.

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