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Filing: Kansas prof's prosecution criminalizes job disputes

by Associated Press
| August 14, 2020 7:03 AM

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The prosecution of a Kansas researcher ensnared in a U.S. government crackdown on Chinese economic espionage and trade secret theft opens the door to criminalizing workplace disagreements, his attorneys argued Friday in a motion asking a court to throw out the charges.

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