For a company focused on games of chance, International Game Technology hasn't had much luck with its lawyers.

First, two in-house patent attorneys sued the company, saying it fired them for raising suspicions about shareholder fraud. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cleared the case for trial in 2009, making new law about the whistle-blower provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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