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The court ruled 7-2 that the suit lacked any specifics in accusing the companies of secretly agreeing not to compete in each other's territories for local telephone and high-speed Internet service.

It is not enough to make a bare assertion of conspiracy, Justice David Souter wrote for the majority.

Souter said the complaint alleging restraint of trade "comes up short.”

Before joining NanoBioMagnetics, New served as an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Central Oklahoma where she taught courses in general chemistry.

In her position at NanoBioMagnetics, New will assist the company's scientific staff in the development of nanoparticle constructs for vectored delivery of chemotherapeutics.