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Still , the company reported a loss of $ 16.6 million in part because of poor sales of its inhaled flu vaccine , FluMist.Synagis is made with the use of an antibody synthesis technology on which Genentech holds a patent , known as the Cabilly II patent after the inventor Shmuel Cabilly.The patent runs through 2018 , though MedImmune says it is invalid and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is reviewing it.Because of a confidentiality agreement with Genentech , MedImmune does not disclose how much it pays in royalties on Synagis . The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to declare that legal immigrants can be deported for drug offenses that are felonies in some states but only misdemeanors under federal law , as the court heard its first oral arguments of the new term yesterday.At issue are provisions of the 1996 immigration law that require any noncitizen guilty of an " aggravated felony " to be sent back to his country of origin , with no chance to ask for leniency . A lawyer for MedImmune Inc. asked the Supreme Court yesterday to let the company sue to overturn a patent owned by Genentech Inc. on a component of MedImmune 's blockbuster drug Synagis , even though MedImmune is paying royalties to use it.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit , which has jurisdiction over patent law , blocked MedImmune from suing in 2004 , ruling that a 1998 deal that MedImmune agreed to with Genentech amounted to a recognition of its patent 's validity , leaving no genuine conflict for the courts to resolve . " Ultimately , the doctors concluded that the withdrawal symptoms were so severe that they began giving Rehnquist the drug again and slowly lowered the dosage until he quit taking it entirely Feb. 7 , 1982.By 1986 , the files show , all the doctors interviewed by the FBI said the former drug dependence should not affect Rehnquist 's future work on the court , and it did not become an issue in his confirmation as chief justice.Alexander Charns , a lawyer in Durham , N.C ., who was among the scholars and journalists who received the documents this week , said that in his view , they contain evidence of " the ongoing use of the FBI for political purposes , not only in the sixties and seventies but well into the 1980s . " We had one gamecock with his windpipe exposed , another with a bone sticking out of his wing and another with a chest wound so bad that you could see his organs moving inside his chest cavity , " said Goodwin , who went with officers from the Mecklenburg County sheriff 's department in last weekend 's raid.Cockfighting has been banned in 48 states , including Virginia , not only for its brutality but also because of the prevalence of gambling , often with tens of thousands of dollars at stake . " Their attitude seems to be ' Hey , you have to - - everybody else does it .