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Court takes key business cases

Monday, Dec. 15, 2003 | 9:25 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed today to intervene in a two-decade-old fight over allowing Mexican trucks and buses on U.S. roadways.

The court said it will hear an appeal from the Bush administration, which wants to open the border to Mexican trucks without a court-ordered environmental study. That's opposed by unions representing U.S. truck drivers.

Separately, the court agreed to decide if some large drug manufacturers can be sued for billions of dollars on claims they conspired to fix vitamin prices worldwide.

Five foreign companies that purchased vitamins -- from Australia, Ecuador, Panama and Ukraine -- want to use U.S. antitrust laws to pursue damages.

Lawyers for the drug companies warned the Supreme Court that if that's allowed "new cases from all over the world will flood the federal district courts."

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