Posts Tagged ‘override’

Indonesia acts to over-ride patents on HIV drugs

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s government has taken steps to over-ride patents on a range of HIV drugs, highlighting a growing trend by Asian states to allow local production of cheap generic drugs that cut into sales of global pharmaceutical companies. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono quietly issued a decree last month authorizing government use of patents [...]

North Carolina lawmakers override race-bias death-row veto

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature voted on Monday to override Democratic Governor Beverly Perdue’s veto of a law that will limit the ability of death-row prisoners to use statistical evidence of racial bias to challenge their sentences. The move effectively negates the hot-button Racial Justice Act, which was signed into law [...]