Court won’t let Conn. challenge education law

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday against hearing Connecticut’s challenge to the federal No Child Left Behind law, ending the state’s six-year lawsuit over how to pay for the stepped-up student testing considered one of the law’s cornerstones, the Associated Press reports. Connecticut was the first state to challenge the 2002 law, which includes provisions requiring yearly standardized tests for children in grades three through eight. Connecticut previously tested students in grades four, six and eight. The state’s lawsuit sought to push the federal government to either change its testing rules or cover the extra testing costs, which Connecticut officials say add up to many millions of dollars…

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Court to decide university patent case

The Supreme Court will decide whether patents on inventions that arise from federally-funded research must go to the university where the inventor worked, reports the Associated Press. The high court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Stanford University. Stanford sued pharmacutical giant Roche over the alleged infringement of technology for detecting HIV levels in a patient’s blood. The university said it owns the technology because its discoverer worked at Stanford. The 1980 Bayh-Dole Act allows universities to retain the rights to research funded by federal grants.

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