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SYDNEY--Australia's Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd. DMP.AU said Tuesday it has agreed to buy 75% of Domino's Pizza Japan from Bain Capital LLC for 12 billion yen (US$123.4 million). It also agreed to provide 9 billion yen worth of debt, giving the Japanese business an enterprise value of 25 billion yen. ...

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Lawyer: Other suspect in DEA killing may go free

MEXICO CITY (AP) ? Defense attorneys believe freedom is imminent for a second member of the trio of Mexican drug kingpins responsible for the 1985 slaying of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, one of the capo's attorneys said Saturday. In the U.S., outrage grew over this week's surprise decision to overturn Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero's conviction in the notorious killing.

Caro Quintero walked free Friday after a federal court overturned his 40-year sentence in agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena's kidnapping, torture and murder. The three-judge appeals court in the western state of Jalisco ordered Caro Quintero's immediate release on procedural grounds after 28 years behind bars, saying he should have originally been prosecuted in state instead of federal court.

Also imprisoned in the Camarena case are Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, two of the founding fathers of modern Mexican drug trafficking, whose cartel based in the northwestern state of Sinaloa later split into some of Mexico's largest drug organizations.

Fonseca Carrillo's attorney, Jose Luis Guizar, said his team had filed an appeal based on the same procedural grounds used by Caro Quintero, and expected him to be freed within 15 days by a different court in Jalisco.

"The appeal is about to be resolved. We believe that the judges will stick to the law," Guizar said. "Fonseca Carrillo should already be on the street. He should be at home. At its base, the issue is the same as Rafael's. "

He said he had not spoken to Felix Gallardo's attorneys about their expectations for that case. Mexican officials did not respond to calls seeking comment Saturday.

Camarena's murder escalated tensions between Mexico and the U.S. to perhaps their highest level in recent decades, with the Reagan administration nearly closing the border to exert pressure on a government with deep ties to the drug lords whose cartel operated with near impunity throughout Mexico.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that it found the Mexican court's decision to free Caro Quintero "deeply troubling," but former DEA agents said they were pessimistic that the Obama administration would bring similar pressure to bear.

Nearly 20 years after the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, U.S.-Mexico trade exceeds $1 billion a day. The two countries have worked closely against drug cartels over the last seven years, with the U.S. sending billions in equipment and training in exchange for wide access to Mexican law-enforcement agencies and intelligence.

The U.S. said little last year after Mexican federal police opened fire on a U.S. embassy vehicle, wounding two CIA officers in one of the most serious attacks on U.S. personnel since the Camarena slaying. Twelve police officers were detained in the case but there is no public evidence that the U.S. or Mexico pursued suspicions that the shooting was a deliberate attack by corrupt police working on behalf of organized crime.

"I'm sure there's going to be a lot of complaints about it but do we have a Department of Justice that's going to stand up for this right now? I don't think so," said Edward Heath, who ran the DEA's Mexico office during the Camarena killing. "Everybody's happy, businesswise. Trade is fine, everybody is content."

President Enrique Pena Nieto, who took office in December, has been restricting U.S. access as part of a broader shift in Mexican law-enforcement strategy from taking down cartel chiefs to reducing daily violence, particularly extortion, kidnapping and homicide. That shift has raised doubts in Washington about Mexico's ongoing commitment to fighting drug trafficking, doubts that grew stronger Saturday after Caro Quintero marked his second full day as a free man, with no public sign of his whereabouts.

The U.S. alleged as recently as June that Caro Quintero continued to run an extensive drug ring from behind bars, working with the Sinaloa cartel to move drugs and launder the proceeds through a string of front businesses.

Congressman Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat who closely follows Mexican politics, said Pena Nieto's government appeared to have been caught off guard by the decision to free Caro Quintero, but the capo's liberation was nonetheless a blow to relations with Washington.

"We've been asking Mexico to follow the rule of law and I don't know if this exactly the rule of law that they're following," he said. "There should have been some sort of heads up notice that this was going to happen.

"I hope this is not a foreshadowing of what might be coming in from this administration," Cuellar said. "I don't think so but the appearance doesn't look very good right now for U.S.-Mexico relations."

Alejandro Hope, a security analyst and former member of Mexico's domestic intelligence service, said he had met Friday with members of the Mexico's Interior Department, which oversees most law-enforcement issues.

"They claimed to have been surprised, to have been blindsided by the judicial decision," he said.

Either way, Caro Quintero's release pales in importance next to the detention last month of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, head of the ruthless Zetas cartel, Hope said. The arrest of the man known as Z-40 was publicly praised by President Barack Obama as a sign of Mexico's seriousness about fighting drug cartels.

"Caro Quintero is the past," Hope said. "Z-40 was the clear and present danger."

The Wednesday ruling for Caro Quintero remained secret for two days, the Department of Justice said, with the U.S. learning about it Friday morning about the same time as the news media, hours after Caro Quintero left prison.

"The retired agents that I have spoken to are extremely upset," said Joe Gutensohn, president of the U.S. Association of Former Federal Narcotics Agents. "They consider this just another slap in the face for our efforts to stem the drug trade in Mexico."

Mexico's attorney-general said the Jalisco court had "completely ignored" Supreme Court precedent in dismissing the case instead of referring it back to the state courts. Attorney-General Jesus Murillo Karam said he would get involved in the case but offered no specifics.

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Mark Stevenson, Adriana Gomez Licon and Olga R. Rodriguez contributed.

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Obamas return for summer stay on Martha's Vineyard

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The first summer vacation of President Barack Obama's second term is taking him back to Martha's Vineyard, the well-heeled Massachusetts island he avoided during last year's re-election campaign.

But his return is causing a bit of an uproar among residents. The Secret Service plans to close part of a public road near the six-bedroom home Obama is renting in Chilmark, a first for presidential vacations on the island known as a refuge for the wealthy and the well-connected.

Obama planned to arrive Saturday afternoon for a nine-day stay after stopping in Orlando, Fla., to address the Disabled American Veterans national convention.

No official public appearances were expected during his stay. He is due back in Washington on Aug. 18.

Since a president is never truly on vacation, Obama will be briefed regularly on a full range of issues, including the al-Qaida threat that led the government to shutter embassies and consulates in the Middle East and North Africa, said White House press secretary Jay Carney.

Beyond that, Obama will play golf, hit the beach, dine out, relax with his family and read something other than a White House briefing book. He engaged in all those activities and more during his earlier presidential vacations on the island.

"The president very much looks forward to being able to spend a few days with his family," Carney said. "It also remains the case that wherever he is, he's president of the United States and will be dedicating a portion of his day to being briefed and working on all the issues that are on the table in front of him."

Obama vacationed on Martha's Vineyard in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and before he became president.

But Obama, who is a millionaire thanks to sales of his best-selling books, skipped the island during last year's presidential campaign. That probably was to avoid perceptions of elitism at the same time he was casting himself as a champion of the middle class in the race against Republican Mitt Romney, who is a millionaire many times over.

But public perception is less important when you don't ever have to face voters again. Obama doesn't, and it's a point he's been making lately in speeches.

The president, the first lady and daughters Malia and Sasha will again camp out in Chilmark, an area on the island's western tip that is dotted with expansive, multimillion-dollar homes.

Its famous residents include actors Ted Danson and his wife, Mary Steenburgen, and Michael J. Fox, singer Carly Simon and Washington power broker Vernon Jordan.

The Obamas were forced into new vacation digs after the 28-acre Blue Heron Farm, where they spent previous vacations, was sold. Because the new place is closer to public roads, some residents are upset over Secret Service plans to ban vehicular traffic along a portion of a road that runs near the property.

"My response to this is we've had the president come to our town three times and it's been very cordial and there's been very little disruption and we love to have him," said Chilmark Selectman Warren Doty, according to a report on the website of the Vineyard Gazette. "This would change that approach ... and be very disruptive."

The town also emailed residents this past week, saying "anyone aggrieved by this closing should email or call the White House."

Doty did not return a telephone message left at his office by The Associated Press.

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said the agency works closely with state and local law enforcement agencies to have as little impact as possible on traffic and to keep any necessary street closures as brief as possible.

Obama's new vacation place ? the main house has four bedrooms and a guesthouse has two more ? is owned by David Schulte, a Chicago-based corporate restructuring specialist and friend of the president. Schulte confirmed the rental in an email to the AP. A local real estate agent handled the transaction.

Schulte donated $2,000 to Obama's re-election campaign, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

His 5,000-square-foot, contemporary-style home sits on 9 1/2 acres overlooking Chilmark Pond and the Atlantic Ocean, according to the Vineyard Gazette. The private master suite has a den, porch, outdoor shower, his and her bathrooms and access to a gym. The house has an open floor plan with views of the ocean and the pond from the living and dining rooms and the kitchen. It also has a small basketball court, the newspaper reported.

Since becoming president in 2009, Obama has taken 14 vacation trips spanning all or part of 92 days, according to CBS News White House reporter Mark Knoller, who tracks presidential travel. The figures do not include visits to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

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FBI fans through wilderness in search for teen

CASCADE, Idaho (AP) ? Federal and local law enforcement agents say they're focused on getting feet on the ground in the search for 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and her suspected abductor, 40-year-old James Lee DiMaggio in central Idaho's Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.

Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft have been flying FBI agents and other law enforcement officers into the roadless wilderness area throughout the day Saturday.

"We are going to continue searching for as long as we believe this is the area most likely where this pair would be," Ada County Sheriff's spokeswoman Andrea Dearden said. "We're going to put every resource possible here, every person possible that we can."

Detectives with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department finished searching DiMaggio's car Saturday afternoon at the remote trailhead where it was found about 40 miles east of the tiny town of Cascade. They had the vehicle towed to a garage in Cascade for further processing.

DiMaggio is suspected of killing Hannah's mother Christina Anderson, 44, and her 8-year-old brother Ethan Anderson, whose bodies were found Sunday night in DiMaggio's burning house in California near the Mexico border.

The steep and mountainous terrain makes it impossible to do a traditional grid search ? and the search area itself spans more than 300 miles, Dearden said. Though search dogs have been brought in from out of state and horses have been identified for possible use, the animals aren't currently helping in the search, Ada County Sheriff's spokeswoman Andrea Dearden said Saturday afternoon.

Time is a critical concern. Dearden said investigators believe both Hannah and DiMaggio are alive, but they are worried about whether the 16-year-old has the right clothing and footwear for the mountainous conditions and whether she has the stamina to handle days of hiking through steep terrain.

Instead, search coordinators are trying to choose the most strategic locations to place the searchers, whether it be along trailheads, at the few airstrips within the wilderness borders, or along drainage paths and river shores.

It's Idaho's wildfire season, and though no blazes threaten the search area, smoke from big fires to the south has reduced visibility and ash is falling on the town of Cascade.

Though Dearden said the smoke hasn't yet hindered the search, nightfall is a problem.

"Simply for safety reasons it isn't practical to have people out there at night," she said.

Ray Arnold, a backcountry pilot and the owner of charter flight service Arnold Aviation in Cascade, said he flew local crews into the wilderness area to help with the search on Friday.

On Saturday, he was helping law enforcement out at the Cascade Airport, fueling aircraft and offering other support, he said.

"There's quite a bit of smoke but you know, if you get down a little lower, it's fine. It's not anything different than any other summer around here," Arnold said.

Though there's not a ton of tree canopy cover in the high alpine area where Anderson and DiMaggio are believed to be, it would still likely be difficult to spot the pair from a plane, Arnold said.

"If a person stands beside a tree or something and his clothes are similar to surroundings, it's hard to see a person, especially if they're not moving," Arnold said. "The people on the ground are probably using spotting scopes and they have a better chance of finding them in some ways. A person gets pretty small when you're up in the air."

Law enforcement officials in San Diego have noted that DiMaggio bought camping gear a few weeks ago.

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At Samsung hearing, Apple seeks precedent in patent cases

By Alina Selyukh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court wrestled on Friday with a request by Apple Inc for a permanent injunction on sales of some phones made by its archrival, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, in a case that could have a deep impact on patent litigation.

Friday's hearing came hours ahead of an expected ruling by the International Trade Commission in a separate case on whether certain mobile devices made by South Korea's Samsung violate Apple patents. The ruling is expected around 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT).

Apple is appealing a lower court ruling that rejected the iPhone maker's request that some older-model Samsung phones be permanently banned because they violate an Apple patent.

At stake is whether judges can permanently ban the sale of a complex device like a smartphone if a court finds that it violates a patent that covers just one of the device's hundreds of features. Samsung and other smartphone makers say a decision in favor of Apple could cripple the market.

At an hour-long hearing in Washington, U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William Bryson questioned whether Apple wanted to use the appeal to set a precedent that would allow it to seek sales bans for newer Samsung phones in an expedited fashion.

"Is that really what we're dealing with?" Bryson asked.

The current case has dragged on for two years.

Apple lawyer William Lee acknowledged that if the iPhone maker's injunction request was granted, the company would seek a so-called contempt proceeding to go after newer Samsung phones.

The case is one of many between the two phone makers as they accuse each other of patent violations in a bid to dominate a fast-growing market for mobile devices.

Samsung's popular Galaxy smartphones and tablets run on Google's Android operating system, which Apple's late co-founder, Steve Jobs, once denounced as a "stolen product." Apple says Samsung has infringed its patents and caused financial losses. Samsung denies it copied Apple's patented features.

The three-judge panel on Friday weighed whether the lower court was right in requiring Apple, when requesting a sales ban, to prove a "causal nexus" connecting a dip in iPhone or iPad sales to Samsung's alleged specific patent infringements.

"I can't imagine that you wouldn't have some nexus requirement, regardless of how you define it, in every case of injunction," Judge Kathleen O'Malley said.

But O'Malley also questioned whether Apple even could prove that one feature of a complex product is the single driver of consumer demand, as demanded by the lower court. She said that if Apple proves one patented feature - such as "pinch-to-zoom" -to be the most important driver of consumer demand, it would automatically disprove the same about other patents.

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Samsung has said that all of the phones involved in the ongoing patent litigation are either no longer in the market or include design workarounds. Apple says the newer phones continue to rely on the same features at stake in this case.

Apple last year won a big monetary verdict against Samsung from a Northern California jury in the patent infringement case but the iPhone maker has been less successful in convincing judges to order injunctions.

The Federal Circuit last year rejected Apple's request for a pretrial sales ban against Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone. With that, it raised the bar for injunctions on device sales based on narrow patents for the devices' features.

It also put Samsung in a much stronger position by allowing its products to remain on store shelves while it fights the global patent battle.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh last December used that Federal Circuit's new, tough pretrial injunction standard when she rejected Apple's bid for a permanent post-trial injunction on several Samsung phones. She also slashed Apple's $1.05 billion jury verdict.

In its appeal, Apple says Koh's ruling would "create a bright-line rule" and argues she should not have used that tougher standard.

Google Inc, HTC Corp and others have chimed in on Samsung's behalf, arguing that an Apple victory would return patent law to the days "when injunctive relief automatically followed a finding of infringement."

The appeals court is expected to issue a written opinion but did not indicate a timeline.

The case is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 13-1129.

(Editing by Ros Krasny, Vicki Allen, Bernadette Baum and Matthew Lewis)

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Chinese judges punished in prostitution scandal

BEIJING (AP) ? Two top Shanghai judges and another court official caught on videotape apparently taking prostitutes to hotel rooms after dining with a contractor have been stripped of their Communist Party membership and will likely lose their jobs.

The case, exposed by the homespun sleuthing of a disgruntled defendant in a civil case, has aggravated public distrust of the court system and shed new light on continued wrongdoing by officials despite the Chinese leadership's vow to crack down on all corruption.

"They slept with prostitutes, but they raped the law," commentator Liu Xuesong wrote in an editorial posted on the website of the Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV broadcaster and widely circulated online Wednesday in mainland China.

The hotel surveillance video, secretly copied and released publicly by a man who went to the hotel claiming he needed to see the videotapes to recover lost property, had triggered an investigation by the Shanghai Communist Party Committee.

The panel said late Tuesday that the three Shanghai Supreme Court officials "participated in prostitution" after being invited to dinner. A fourth court official accepted female companionship that evening but did not take a woman to a room, the panel said.

The statement did not clarify whether the contractor paid for prostitutes, but party rules forbid both involvement in prostitution and accepting bribes. The committee said the three involved in prostitution were stripped of party membership while the fourth court official was on probation, and that it was requesting that the court dismiss all four employees.

The party-run People's Daily newspaper, in commenting on the case Wednesday, said it was important for the image of judges to remain untarnished.

"The images of judges are not about themselves but also inherently related to the credibility of the judicial system and the public trust of law," the editorial said.

Whistleblowers in China run the risk of retribution from powerful officials, and leaders are deeply wary of enlisting the public in the fight against corruption, preferring to wage the campaign on their own terms. However, the man who leaked the hotel videos ? identified in state-run media reports only by his surname, Ni ? has appeared to face no repercussions from his actions so far.

Ni has told state-run media outlets that he set out to expose wrongdoings of one of the judges, Shanghai Supreme Court justice Zhao Minghua, after getting what he believed was unfair treatment in a court case handled by another judge.

Ni said he found out that Zhao was cousins with the plaintiff in the case, a contract dispute in a building project, and he suspected the judge had exerted influence on the courtroom outcome. Ni told state media he then spent a year stalking Zhao, and found his opportunity on June 9 when he followed the judge to a resort hotel.

Ni said he later went to the hotel management claiming that he had lost something and asking to review surveillance videos, secretly filming copies and finding that they showed Zhao and colleagues taking women into their hotel rooms.

A prominent Chinese business magazine, Caixin, said that the whistleblower had posted the hotel video online after he filed a police complaint in April but "the case went nowhere." It said he spoke to the magazine in an interview but his name was not published.

"It is clear that he realized the failed police report meant officials enjoy special protection," the magazine said. "An ordinary citizen making a report through official channels is likely to make little headway."

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