The states' lawsuit says Bristol-Myers and American BioScience filed a "sham court action" that helped delay the availability of a cheaper version of Taxol, a drug that can cost up to $10,000 for a course of treatment lasting several months.
"My question for the White House would be you want to co-sign a dictator's arrest of a journalist, beating of a journalist, and conviction in a court that every human rights organization in the world has said was a sham court?" he said.
A sham religious court hears their case, usually declaring them guilty.
The Home Office said "increased emphasis" had been placed on tackling sham marriages since courts overruled the COA scheme.
A year later, in a trial that many legal experts described as a sham, a local court convicted him of destroying property and organizing a crowd to block traffic while he was under house arrest.
They denounced the verdict as a sham because the court also acquitted many officials more directly responsible for the police who killed the demonstrators, and a broad range of lawyers and political leaders said Mr. Mubarak's conviction was doomed to reversal on appeal.
The prosecutor may do so only after convincing a three-judge panel that an existing national investigation or trial was a sham or that local courts shielded an individual from criminal responsibility.
Indeed, the United States Tax Court ruled the AlliedSignal deal, struck in 1990, was a sham, and an appeals court upheld that decision earlier this year.
The shelter was ruled a sham by the Tax Court, and General Signal later paid the taxes.
