[PUBLISH]Before TJOFLAT, CARNES and HILL, Circuit Judges.This case arose when Janneral Denson and Jordan L. Taylor sued the U.S. Customs Service, Customs Inspectors Cheryl Friedland and Lee Lave

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For a while now, Microsoft has been angling to get government trustbusters to investigate Google, but on Tuesday, it was Google that scored a victory in a case involving competition in the awarding of a $60 million contract for an Interior Department e-mail system.

With Bartlit Beck's two wins and one loss in three Federal Signal siren cases in three years, the hearing loss litigation offers a case study in how a couple of evidentiary rulings can alter a trial's outcome.