Monex moved to block the government's use of the tens of thousands of pages, focusing on the fact that Spondello was still a Monex employee both when he took the documents and when he gave them to the IRS. Lawyer ethics and IRS administrative rules might restrict the government's ablity to employ the material against Monex.

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After months of hearings and analysis and thousands of pages of documents submitted by the parties, the Department of Justice yesterday filed a lawsuit to block the merger.

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Fibrogen's other approach, a joint effort with Japan's Sankyo , is to screen thousands of small-moleculeproteins on their shelves and those of other firms to see whether one or two will block CTGF from binding with receptors or knock out one of the collagen-producing signals that CTGF sends into a cell nucleus.

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