LITTLE ROCK — In other actions at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, justices: Overturned an appeals court decision that would have released Lorenzo Johnson, a Pennsylvania man convicted of helping to kill a woman in an alley nearly two decades ago.
Rejected a Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA appeal and let stand a jury verdict that will cost the company’s ceramics and plastics business more than $44 million in a patent fight with aSiemens AG unit.
Declined to block Minnesota’s lawsuit against Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., over the deadly 2007 interstate bridge collapse in Minneapolis that killed 13 people.
Refused to revive a class-action lawsuit against Iran filed by Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran more than 30 years ago.
Information for this article was contributed by Bloomberg News.
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