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With state contractors using heavy concrete breakers, cranes, loaders and dump trucks at the Ambassador Bridge to demolish recent concrete work and cart away the rubble of high approach ramps for a parallel span, the Detroit International Bridge Company (DIBC) battles on, using the courts and public opinion.

The Ambassador Bridge company has lost its effort to avert a judge's order to tear down non-conforming structures on the US approaches.

A Supreme Court ruling this week in a patent case on mobile telephone chipsets - Quanta vs LG Electronics - deals with many of the same issues raised by TransCore in their litigation against ETC, and touches indirectly on the value of IBM's patent claim to variable pricing tolls.