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GlaxoSmithKline has made provisions worth £2.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010 to settle claims arising out of its diabetes drug Avandia and an US Federal Investigation into the company's sales and promotional practices for nine other products in the US. The charges are more than the company's fourth quarter's net profit and will wipe Q4 earnings of 2010 clean.
The US had restricted the sale of Avandia and Europe banned its use after the drug was suspected to cause heart disease. In July 2010, Glaxo had announced a similar charge of £1.57 billion for its manufacturing standards in Puerto Rico, its antidepressant drug Paxil and claims over Avandia as well.
PD Villarreal, a senior Vice President of the Global Litigation Team said: "We recognise that this is a significant charge, but we believe the approach we are taking to resolve long-standing legal matters is in the company's best interests" and added "we have closed out a number of major cases over the last year and we remain determined to do all we can to reduce our litigation risk".
The investigation currently underway against the company has been initiated by the Colorado US Attorney's office over the company's promotional practices between 1997 and 2004. Though Glaxo refused to identify the drugs, it said it pertains to 'off-label promotion' – an activity where Pharma companies promote drugs for usage without the approval of regulators.


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BioChristopher Willits is a musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco, California. Striking a delicate balance between acoustic and electronic sounds and systems, Christopher manages to defy genre distinctions while still defining a "sound" unto his own. His numerous solo releases and collaborations cover a broad spectrum of musical styles, and include one main commonality: Willits' unique use of the guitar with custom-made signal processing. This home-brewed software, along with Willits' 6-string prowess, generates a unique real-time mixture of improvised melody and rhythm. Willits' guitar lines and harmonies fold into each other. Notes and phrases hook and weave, creating complex patterns of interlocking rhythm, melody, and texture.
Willits' music has received critical acclaim from numerous publications such as The Wire, The BBC, Grooves Magazine, XLR8R, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and URB magazine - where Willits was nominated as one of URB's "Next 100" artists. Christopher's unique approaches to performance, instrumentation, and production lead The SF Bay Guardian to write: "Christopher Willits is the center cell of of a rather complex indie-rock-avant-garde-electronic-art Venn diagram here in the Bay Area".
Aside from Ghostly, Willits has released music on the labels 12k (USA), Sub Rosa (Belgium), Nibble (USA), Ache Records (Canada), Fallt (Ireland), Yacca (Japan) and Plop (Japan). In support of his rigorous release schedules, Willits has toured extensively throughout the World.
Willits has a vast range of collaborations he is involved in, which include bands, sound installations, and film/video projects. Flössin, a band project organized and produced by Willits, is currently working on a new release that will feature the original lineup of Zach Hill (drummer from the band Hella), Miguel Depedro (Kid606) and Willits, plus Matmos and a familiar remixing cast of indie-electronic/rock artists. Christopher Willits and Brad Laner (formerly of Medicine) have formed the North Valley Subconscious Orchestra, releasing The Right Kind of Nothing. Taylor Deupree (12k label-head) and Willits have released two full-length studio albums and a recent live CD. Other collaborators include Latrice Barnett (Galactic, Handsome Boy Modeling School), Paul D'Amour (Tool, Lusk, Feersum Ennjin), Keiichi Sugimoto (Cubic Music), sound designer Douglas Murray ("Twin Peaks" and "The English Patient") and video artist Scott Pagano.
Willits completed his Master's Degree in Electronic Music at Mills College where he studied with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith and John Bischoff. At Mills he explored structure-generating processes in music; a focus not unfamiliar to former Mills affiliates John Cage and Steve Reich. Prior to Mills, Willits received a solid visual arts training in painting, sculpture, and video art at the Kansas City Art Institute.


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If you live somewhere without 4G LTE network coverage or you live in a bad coverage zone, the battery of your Huawei E589 mini WiFi is just being used up by the bad network coverage. Besides the battery consuming factor, it would cause an unreliable internet connection for your E589. Because, by default the Huawei E589 is configured to automatically connect to the fastest available network. If the network is unavailable, it will search network type continuously.
So, it would be necessary to switch the mobile network from 4G LTE to 3G or 2G to conserve the battery and estable a stable mobile speed for your E589 mobile wifi. Here are the steps to show you how to do the switch work.
Benifits of Switch the mobile network manually1) Conserve E589 battery power. 4G is infamous for heavy power consumption
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1) Open a web browser and go to the address http://192.168.1.1 and login as admin.
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After this, you have switched the mobile network successfully for your Huawei E589u LTE router. It is easy, isn't it?
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They are one of the biggest scourges of drivers across the UK in the winter months, and with the weather starting to take a turn for the worse as we head towards December, it will soon once again be what has become known as pothole season.
Potholes can spell disaster for drivers, potentially damaging their suspension, tyres and creating host of other problems. And each year, local councils are under pressure to put more money into tackling the problem.
Could this about to become a reality? At last, the government announced last week it is to put more money into blitzing potholes across the nation, as the chancellor George Osborne used his Autumn Statement and Spending Review to unveil new funding for tackling potholes.
Mr Osborne has set aside £250 million of funding over the next five years to repair potholes, which will sit hand in hand with a £5 billion existing fund for general UK road maintenance. This comes as part of the announcement that the £15 billion road investment strategy, the biggest in the UK since the 1970s, remains protected.
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RAC chief engineer David Bizley said: "We are pleased the Chancellor has sought to protect the funds allocated to the road investment strategy as this demonstrates a firm commitment to protect and improve the country's crucial road transport infrastructure in the longer term.
"The extra £250 million being allocated to the pothole fund over the next five years is good news but is, of course, no more than a drop in the ocean in terms of the scale of the problem across Britain's 245,000 miles of road."
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Hotel Pension Elegia am Kurfürstendamm, Berlin
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NORTH TEXAS PATENT GROUP, INC., PLAINTIFF,v.BLACKBOARD, INC., DEFENDANT.
Qui tam relator North Texas Patent Group, Inc. (NTPG) has sued Blackboard, Inc. for falsely marking course management software in violation of the patent false marking statute, 35 U.S.C. § 292. Blackboard has moved to dismiss NTPG's complaint for failure to state a claim pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). For the reasons stated below, the Court grants the motion.
The Court takes the following facts from the allegations in NTPG's first amended complaint. The Court accepts the allegations in the first amended complaint as true for purposes of the motion to dismiss. See Hallinan v. Fraternal Order of Police of Chicago Lodge No. 7, 570 F.3d 811, 820 (7th Cir. 2009). The Court also takes judicial notice of the Federal Circuit's decision in a related case, Blackboard, Inc. v. Desire2Learn Inc., 574 F.3d 1371, 1373 (Fed. Cir. 2009). See Palay v. United States, 349 F.3d 418, 425 n. 5 (7th Cir. 2003) ("[I]n resolving a motion to dismiss, [a] district court is entitled to take judicial notice of matters in the public record.").
NTPG's claims concern United States patent number 6,988,138 (the '138 patent), which contains forty-four claims relating to course management software. Claims 1-35 are system claims, and claims 36-44 are method claims. NTPG alleges that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued the patent on January 17, 2006. The patent listed Blackboard as the patent's assignee. See Am. Compl., Ex. A. NTPG alleges that Blackboard subsequently falsely marked software product lines including Blackboard AttendancePro, Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Mobile with the patent with the intent to deceive the public.
In July 2006, Blackboard sued Desire2Learn Inc., alleging infringement of the '138 patent. See Pl.'s Resp. to Def.'s Mot. to Dismiss, Ex. A. The trial court found claims 1-35 of the patent invalid for indefiniteness. At a trial held in February 2008, however, a jury found that claims 36-38 were infringed by Desire2Learn and were not invalid.
In December 2006, while the infringement suit was pending, Desire2Learn instituted an inter partes reexamination proceeding before the PTO. In an office action dated March 25, 2008 -- after the jury trial on the infringement suit -- an examiner found all forty-four claims of the '138 patent invalid as anticipated or obvious in light of the prior art. See id., Ex. C.
In May 2008, the trial court in the infringement suit entered final judgment, confirming the jury's infringement and validity determinations regarding claims 36-38. After Desire2Learn appealed, Blackboard petitioned the Director of the PTO to terminate the inter partes reexamination proceeding, relying on a statute that prohibits the PTO from maintaining an inter partes reexamination if a court has entered a final decision affirming validity against a party seeking reexamination on invalidity grounds. See 35 U.S.C. § 317(b). In November 2008, after the Director denied Blackboard's petition, Blackboard filed suit seeking to enjoin the maintenance of the reexamination proceeding. See Pl.'s Resp to Def.'s Mot. to Dismiss, Ex. B. Blackboard voluntarily dismissed the suit in late December 2008.
In the interim, after Desire2Learn appealed the trial court's judgment in the infringement suit, it sought a stay of the injunction, based in part on the PTO's office action. The Federal Circuit declined to stay the case. See Def.'s Reply Mem. at 6-7 (citing docket entries).
When, however, the Federal Circuit considered the case on its merits, it affirmed the trial court's invalidity decision regarding claims 1-35 but reversed the finding in Blackboard's favor on claims 36-38. Blackboard, Inc. v. Desire2Learn Inc., 574 F.3d 1381, 1379 (Fed. Cir. 2009). The court held those claims invalid as anticipated by the manuals of two software systems, CourseInfo 1.5 and Serf. Id. at 1379-82. The Federal Circuit did not address the validity of the '138 patent's remaining claims (claims 39-44).
In its response to the motion to dismiss, NTPG states that in November 2010 (after this suit was filed), the PTO cancelled all claims of the '138 patent. See Pl.'s Resp. to Def.'s Mot. to Dismiss at 2. It appears that this represented the conclusion of the reexamination proceeding. Cf. Def.'s Reply Mem. at 8 (referring to the PTO's "November 9, 2010 issuance of the reexamination certificate"). NTPG contends that Blackboard has nonetheless continued to mark its products with the patent. Id. NTPG's complaint, however, makes no reference to either the cancellation or the alleged subsequent false marking. The Court thus does not consider in this decision any claim that NTPG might bring based on the November 2010 cancellation of the patent. The Court also notes that NTPG does not appear to contend that the PTO's March 2008 office action in the reexamination proceeding constituted any sort of final action that invalidated the patent in its entirety.
In its amended complaint in the present false marking case, NTPG alleges that NTPG alleges that "[c]laims 39-44 cannot cover any product, including Defendant's products, as they are method claims." First Am. Compl. ¶ 36. NTPG also asserts that claims 39-44 are invalid due to anticipation, obviousness, and indefiniteness, and that several of the claims do not cover the allegedly marked products because they require the performance of tasks by an instructor. Blackboard disputes these contentions.
I. Motion to dismiss
Blackboard has moved to dismiss the first amended complaint for failure to state a claim. "A pleading that states a claim for relief must contain: . . . a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief." Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 8(a). Rule 8(a) imposes three requirements:
First, a plaintiff must provide notice to defendants of her claims. Second, courts must accept a plaintiff's factual allegations as true, but some factual allegations will be so sketchy or implausible that they fail to provide sufficient notice to defendants of the plaintiff's claim. Third, in considering the plaintiff's factual allegations, courts should not accept as adequate abstract recitations of the elements of a cause of action or conclusory legal statements.
Brooks v. Ross, 578 F.3d 574, 581 (7th Cir. 2009). Claims under the false marking statute are also subject to the particularized pleading requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b). In re BP Lubricants USA Inc., --- F.3d ---, 2011 WL 873147, at *2 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 15, 2011). The Federal Circuit has held that Rule 9(b) requires a plaintiff in a false marking case to "'allege sufficient underlying facts from which a court may reasonably infer that [the defendant] acted with the requisite state of mind.'" Id. at *3 (quoting Exergen Corp. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 575 F.3d 1312, 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2009)).
The false marking statute provides, in relevant part: Whoever marks upon, or affixes to, or uses in advertising in connection with any unpatented article, the word "patent" or any word or number importing that the same is patented for the purpose of deceiving the public; . . . [s]hall be fined not more than $500 for every such offense. 35 U.S.C. § 292(a). "The two elements of a § 292 false marking claim are (1) marking an unpatented article and (2) intent to deceive the public." Forest Group, Inc. v. Bon Tool Co., 590 F.3d 1295, 1300 (Fed. Cir. 2009) (citing Clontech Labs. Inc. v. Invitrogen Corp., 406 F.3d 1347, 1352 (Fed. Cir. 2005)). "When the statute refers to an 'unpatented article' the statute means that the article in question is not covered by at least one claim of each patent with which the article is marked." Juniper Networks, Inc. v. Shipley, --- F.3d ---, 2011 WL 1601995, at *4 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 29, 2011) (quoting Clontech Labs. Inc., 406 F.3d at 1352) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Blackboard concedes that claims 1-38 of the patent have been ruled invalid but contends that NTPG has failed to adequately allege that the patent's remaining claims are invalid or do not cover the marked products. NTPG counters with two arguments. First, NTPG asserts that, as a matter of law, "[c]laims 39-44 cannot cover any product . . as they are method claims." First Am. Compl. ¶ 36. Second, NTPG asserts that claims 39-44 are invalid due to anticipation, obviousness, and indefiniteness, and that several of the claims do not cover the allegedly marked products because they require the performance of tasks by an instructor.
The Court begins with NTPG's contention that, as a matter of law, method claims cannot cover any product. The Supreme Court addressed a related issue in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., 553 U.S. 617 (2008). In that case, the Supreme Court considered the application of the patent exhaustion doctrine to the sale of a set of computer components that had to be combined with additional components in order to practice the patented methods. Id. at 621. The Court held that the sale of the component parts exhausted the method patents. Id. at 628-29. It reasoned: "It is true that a patented method may not be sold in the same way as an article or device, but methods nonetheless may be 'embodied' in a product, the sale of which exhausts patent rights." Id. at 629.
At least one district court has applied the holding in Quanta Computers to the patent false marketing statute. See Harrington v. CIBA Vision Corp., No. 08 C 0251, 2010 WL 2889584 (W.D.N.C. July 21, 2010). In Harrington, a district court held that a plaintiff had failed to prove that a disinfecting solution marked with a method patent relating to the disinfection of soft contact lenses constituted an "unpatented item" for purposes of section 292(a). Id. at *4-5. The court reasoned that the marked item "embodied" the patented method, and that "[a]n item cannot be a 'patented item' for purposes of the patent exhaustion doctrine and an 'unpatented article' for purposes of § 292." Id. The Court finds Harrington persuasive and concludes that NTPG cannot state a claim against Blackboard merely by asserting that claims 39-44 of the '138 patent are method claims.
Blackboard cites no convincing authority to the contrary. It relies on Clontech Laboratories, Inc. v. Invitrogen Corp., 406 F.3d 1347 (2005), but points to no language in Clontech that contradicts the analysis in Harrington. Clontech is inapposite. Indeed, the defendant in that case conceded that its marked products fell outside the scope of any valid patent claim. Id. at 1355-57. Blackboard also cites a law review article that predates Quanta Computer and provides little analysis on the matter at issue. See Elizabeth I. Winston, The Flawed Nature of the False Marking Statute, 112 Tenn. L. Rev. 111, 128 (2010). These citations do not persuade this Court that the analysis in Harrington is flawed.
The Court turns next to NTPG's contention that Blackboard engaged in false marking because claims 39-44 are invalid and also because several of the claims do not cover the products in question. Specifically, NTPG contends that claims 39-44 of the patent are invalid as anticipated or obvious by CourseInfo 1.5, First Am. Compl. ¶¶ 30, 39, 41; claims 43-44 of the '138 patent are invalid as indefinite, id. ¶ 38; and Blackboard's marked products "do not and cannot practice claims 39-42" because those claims "require that an 'instructor' take action to perform the step of the claimed method," id. ¶ 37. NTPG acknowledges that the Federal Circuit did not address the validity of claims 39-44 but argues that the court's reasoning invalidating claims 1-38 also applied to those claims. Id. ¶¶ 40-41.
Blackboard counters that the presumption of validity that attaches to patents prior to their invalidation by a court defeats NTPG's claims as a matter of law. This Court agrees. "By direction of 35 U.S.C. § 282, an issued patent is presumed valid." KSR Intern. Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398, 412 (2007). Section 282 states:
Each claim of a patent (whether in independent, dependent, or multiple dependent form) shall be presumed valid independently of the validity of other claims; dependent or multiple dependent claims shall be presumed valid even though dependent upon an invalid claim. 35 U.S.C. § 282; see also Apple Computer, Inc. v. Articulate Systems, Inc., 234 F.3d 14, 24 (Fed. Cir. 2000); Lannom Mfg. Co., Inc. v. U.S. Intern. Trade Comm'n, 799 F.2d 1572, 1578-79 (Fed. Cir. 1986) (recognizing that "a patent is 'born valid' when it is granted by the Patent and Trademark Office") (citations omitted). NTPG does not allege that any court had held claims 39-44 invalid at the time Blackboard marked the products.
NTPG replies that the presumption of validity that attaches to a patent issued by the PTO may be overcome. See, e.g., Connell v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 722 F.2d 1542, 1549 (Fed. Cir. 1983) (recognizing that "[t]he patent challenger may indeed prove facts capable of overcoming the presumption[.]"). It also contends that the validity of a patent is ultimately a question of fact inappropriate for decision at the motion to dismiss stage. The validity of a patent "need not be re-established," however, unless its validity is challenged in a patent infringement litigation. See Lannom Mfg. Co., 799 F.2d at 1579. Instead, a patent "remains valid until a challenger proves it [is invalid], or it is no longer viable as an enforceable right." Roper Corp. v. Litton Sys., Inc., 757 F.2d 1266, 1270 (Fed. Cir. 1985).
At the time of the false marking currently alleged by NTPG, several claims of the '138 patent had not been invalidated. And, as the Court has ruled, the products on which Blackboard marked the patent embodied those claims. It follows that the products were not "unpatented" within the meaning of section 292(a). Neither the fact that the validity of remaining claims had been questioned, nor the fact that those claims later were invalidated or cancelled, changes this. Nothing in section 292(a) requires a patent holder to anticipate a potential invalidation of its patent that has not yet occurred; no authority suggests otherwise.
For those reasons, the Court concludes that NTPG has failed to state a claim against Blackboard.
II. NTPG's request for leave to amend
NTPG asserts, and Blackboard does not dispute, that five days after NTPG filed its first amended complaint on November 4, 2010, the PTO issued a certificate canceling all forty-four claims of the '138 patent. In its filing in opposition to the motion to dismiss, NTPG asserts that Blackboard continued to falsely mark its product lines, including on its website, after the PTO's November 9, 2010 decision. NTPG contends that the Court should construe the first amended complaint to encompass this conduct or, in the alternative, grant NTPG leave to amend its complaint. Blackboard opposes both requests.
The Court rejects NTPG's suggestion that the first amended complaint encompasses any conduct by Blackboard following the PTO's November 9, 2010 action. NTPG points to its allegation that, "[d]espite the fact that NTPG has filed suit against Blackboard for false marking, Blackboard continued and continues to mark its products and advertise with the '138 patent following the date of NTPG's original complaint." First Am. Compl. ¶ 45. That allegation, however, does not encompass conduct that postdates the filing of the first amended complaint. The Court defers ruling on NTPG's request for leave to amend its complaint pending the filing of a motion for leave to amend. If NTPG seeks to amend its complaint to allege false marking after November 9, 2010, it goes without saying that the requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b) apply to any such allegation.
For the reasons stated above, the Court grants Blackboard's motion to dismiss plaintiff's first amended complaint [docket no. 18]. The Court will convert the dismissal to a final judgment on the merits unless NTPG presents for hearing, on or before May 24, 2011, a motion for leave to amend including a proposed second amended complaint that states at least one legally viable claim. The case is set for a status hearing on May 24, 2011 at 9:30 a.m.
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Lt. Robert Atherton and firefighter Daniel Bergeron immediately stretched lines into the home and found heavy smoke and fire conditions on the second floor. The ladder from Truck 1 was raised to the roof with the intent to cut a hole for ventilation, but the flames quickly burned through. Additional crews worked to uncover the fire hidden in the walls finding that the fire had spread through many of the hidden voids under the roof.
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March 3, 1980
UNITED STATES of America
Juan Antonio PONCE, Mario Martinez, Simon Martinez, Rafael Jaquez, Defendants.
Defendants Juan Antonio Ponce, Mario Martinez, Rafael Jaquez and Simon Martinez were indicted for conspiracy to violate 18 U.S.C. §§ 2314, 2315 and for concealing and transporting stolen property in violation of the same statutory sections. Defendant Mario Martinez moves, pursuant to Rule 12, Fed.R.Crim.P., to suppress all the evidence seized from him and from 528 Bryant Avenue, Bronx, New York at the time of his arrest on November 21, 1979. An evidentiary hearing was held on this motion on February 19, 1980. For the reasons set forth below, the motion is denied.
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The following factual recitation is drawn from the testimony of Stephen Gilkerson, who was the sole witness at the hearing and whose testimony is fully credited by this court. Gilkerson was the FBI agent handling the investigation which led to the arrest of the four defendants. An FBI employee in the Bureau's New Rochelle, New York office, Gilkerson has been involved in the investigation of hijackings and the theft of property from interstate commerce for approximately ten years (Tr. at 10-11). In August 1979, Gilkerson received a teletype from the FBI's Newark office which stated that an employee of the WTC Air Freight Co. ("WTC") had received an anonymous phone call advising him that the contents of a trailer hijacked from WTC was being stored at 528 Bryant Avenue ("the premises") (Id. at 12). Based upon this information, Gilkerson drove past the location on several occasions to conduct "spot checks." Although the door of the warehouse at 528 Bryant Avenue was open on one occasion, Gilkerson was unable to see any merchandise inside (Id. at 14).
Gilkerson then took steps to determine the owner(s) or occupant(s) of the premises. Jerry Langer, the building's real estate agent, told Gilkerson that an individual identifying himself as Tony Ramirez and another person identifying himself as Ramirez's brother had rented the premises in May 1979. Langer furnished Gilkerson with the address and telephone number which the lessees had given to Langer in the event that Langer had to contact them. Gilkerson's trip to the contact address 320 Audubon Avenue revealed that there was no such address (Id. at 42).
In late October, FBI agent Robert Debellis told Gilkerson that he had information to the effect that there might be stolen light bulbs on the premises (Id. at 16). Gilkerson placed the location under surveillance, but agents were still unable to see any cartons or merchandise inside (Id.). On October 29th, the agents conducting the surveillance reported to Gilkerson that they observed a blue van, New York license plate 703 MXH, enter and later exit the premises. The agents followed the van as it travelled to several hardware stores in the Bronx (Id. at 17).
On November 15th, agent Bill Hutton, one of the agents who had seen the blue van on October 29th, was driving with Gilkerson in the vicinity of Jerome Avenue and Interstate 95 when he spotted the van again (Id. at 17-18). The agents followed the van as it travelled to 528 Bryant Avenue. After a brief stop, the van left the premises and the agents followed it first to a hardware store on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx and then to a municipal parking lot in the vicinity of 35th Street and 9th Avenue in Manhattan. The van was then parked and the driver and passenger took off on foot. After the two individuals had been away for some time, the agents approached the van to determine whether they could see anything inside. The two individuals returned as the agents were closely surveilling the vehicle. In order to prevent the individuals from becoming suspicious, the agents told them that they were investigating a hit and run accident involving a vehicle very similar to the van (Id. at 19). The two individuals identified themselves to the agents as Mario Martinez and Rafael Jaquez (Id.).
One week after this incident, on November 21st, Gilkerson received a phone call at approximately 1:00 p.m. from a New York City police officer who had been working with them on the investigation of 528 Bryant Avenue. The officer told Gilkerson that the door to the premises had been "broken out" and that he was able to see a trailer inside the location (Id. at 20). Based upon this information as well as the teletype received from the Newark office, Gilkerson believed that 528 Bryant Avenue was being used as a "drop" and that the trailer probably had been stolen recently (Id. at 23).
Gilkerson and several other agents arrived in the vicinity of the warehouse at approximately 2:10 p.m. and observed the top of a trailer through an opening in the doorway (Id. at 21, 26). The agents then set up a surveillance across the street from the premises. At approximately 2:45 p.m., the blue van pulled up along side of the premises and three individuals got out and went into the warehouse (Id. at 21). Gilkerson testified that he recognized two of the individuals as Mario Martinez and Rafael Jaquez from his meeting with them on November 15th (Id. at 27). Gilkerson observed all three of them occasionally leave the warehouse carrying buckets, proceed to fill the buckets with water from a nearby fire hydrant, and then return to the premises (Id. at 27). Sometime thereafter, a car driven by an individual later identified as Juan Ponce parked outside the warehouse. Ponce spoke briefly with the occupants and then, accompanied by one of the individuals later identified as Simon Martinez, drove to a nearby hardware store (Id. at 28). Two agents followed them and observed them putting cans with handles and a long broom-like object into the car before returning to 528 Bryant Avenue (Id. at 29). When this information was reported to Gilkerson, he considered the possibility that the occupants were painting the trailer to disguise it (Id. at 29-30).
Soon thereafter, Gilkerson asked his supervisor to contact Agent Debellis to see if Debellis or his source could furnish any information about the trailer. Debellis was able to ascertain that the trailer on the premises had been stolen from Twin Express, a New Jersey trucking company (Id. at 31). Having received this information, Gilkerson's supervisor contacted the United States Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York to obtain their recommendation about arresting the occupants without a warrant. The agents received oral authorization at approximately 4:00 p.m. to arrest the occupants. (Id. at 32).
Two agents proceeded to arrest Ponce, who was standing outside the premises next to the blue van. The other agents, including Gilkerson, went inside the warehouse through its slightly ajar front door and arrested the other three individuals. Mario Martinez and Rafael Jaquez were standing toward the rear of the trailer and Simon Martinez was standing on the opposite side, painting a portion of the trailer (Id. at 34). The agents uncovered a variety of merchandise inside the warehouse including a large quantity of Sylvania lightbulbs and a large stock of ladies bathrobes with the brand name "J. C. Penny" (Id. at 35). Gilkerson then asked Twin Express and the company that had reported a large quantity of lightbulbs stolen to send representatives to the warehouse to verify that the merchandise was stolen from them. All the merchandise was so identified (Id. at 39).
Two issues are raised by the instant motion: (1) whether the federal law enforcement officers had probable cause to arrest defendant Martinez and (2) whether the Fourth Amendment permits the officers to enter the commercial premises leased to one of the suspects in order to effect a felony arrest for which the officers have statutory authority and probable cause, but no warrant. Because this court answers both of these questions in the affirmative, and because search was incident to a lawful arrest, it denies defendant Martinez's motion to suppress.
The facts and circumstances known to Gilkerson when he and his fellow agents arrested the defendants clearly would have warranted a reasonably prudent and cautious police officer in believing that the defendants had committed or were committing a crime. See United States v. Ortiz, 422 U.S. 891, 897, 95 S. Ct. 2585, 2589, 45 L. Ed. 2d 623 (1975); United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 885, 95 S. Ct. 2574, 2582, 45 L. Ed. 2d 607 (1975); Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 175-76, 69 S. Ct. 1302, 1310-1311, 93 L. Ed. 1879 (1949). In August 1979, Gilkerson received information that 528 Bryant Avenue was being used as a drop for stolen property and that the lessee of the premises had given the building's real estate agent a false address. In October, Gilkerson learned from Debellis that there might be stolen light bulbs on the premises. In the course of surveilling the warehouse, agents observed on two occasions, first on October 29th and then on November 15th, a blue van occupied by various defendants arrive at and depart from the premises and travel to several hardware stores in the Bronx. The New York police officer's observation on November 21st of the top of a trailer inside the warehouse was, as the government has characterized it, "the smoking gun." Within the following approximately 3 1/2 hour period until the arrest, Debellis informed Gilkerson that the trailer stolen from Twin Express was hidden inside the premises and the agents witnessed three of the defendants fill buckets with water from a nearby fire hydrant and observed two of the defendants leave a hardware store carrying cans with handles and a broom-like object. Moreover, based upon his experience in investigating stolen trailers, Gilkerson testified that stolen vehicles are typically taken to buildings, unloaded as quickly as possible, often disguised, and then abandoned. Considering the evidence collectively, Raffone v. Adams, 468 F.2d 860, 866 (2d Cir. 1972), and in light of Gilkerson's training and experience, United States v. Ortiz, supra, 422 U.S. at 897, 95 S. Ct. at 2589, this court finds that the agents had probable cause to arrest the occupants of the premises including defendant Martinez.
Notwithstanding the existence of probable cause to arrest, defendant argues that his warrantless arrest was unlawful under the teachings of United States v. Reed,
572 F.2d 412 (2d Cir. 1978). We disagree. In Reed, this Circuit held that a law enforcement official could not lawfully arrest a suspect in his home in the absence of either a warrant or exigent circumstances. Id. at 424. Although neither Reed nor its progeny involved a situation in which a warrantless arrest based on probable cause occurred in a commercial premises, these cases make it clear that the holding in Reed is limited to warrantless arrests in "intrinsically private places" that have been traditionally "afforded the most stringent Fourth Amendment protection" and which represent "the archetype of privacy protection" the home. Id. at 424. See also United States v. Mespoulede, 597 F.2d 329, 331 (2d Cir. 1979); United States v. Corcione, 592 F.2d 111, 118 (2d Cir. 1979); United States v. Manafzadeh, 592 F.2d 81, 93 (2d Cir. 1979); United States v. Hammond, 585 F.2d 26, 29 (2d Cir. 1978). We therefore decline to extend Reed to the facts of this case.
Even assuming for the sake of argument the applicability of Reed, the government has met its burden of establishing that exigent circumstances existed to justify the warrantless arrest. The crime was a relatively serious one, the agents were able to enter the premises peacefully and, as previously described, there was a "clear showing" of probable cause that the suspects had stolen the trailer. Moreover, time appeared to be of the essence given the modus operandi of the crime to unload the trailer, disguise it, and abandon it as soon as possible. See generally United States v. Campbell, 581 F.2d 22, 25-27 (2d Cir. 1978); United States v. Reed, supra, at 424-25. In short, the agents had every reason to believe that they were observing a highly volatile situation and thus were not constitutionally required to obtain a warrant. Compare United States v. Reed, supra, at 424-25.
Accordingly, defendant Martinez was lawfully arrested and the agents, once lawfully on the premises, were entitled to seize items in plain view, Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 464-73, 91 S. Ct. 2022, 2037-2042, 29 L. Ed. 2d 564 (1971), and to conduct a search of his person incident to the arrest. Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752, 89 S. Ct. 2034, 23 L. Ed. 2d 685 (1963). Defendant Martinez's motion to suppress all the evidence seized at the time of his arrest is therefore denied.
So ordered.
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