El Segundo, Calif.-based Hughes Electronics, which operates DirecTV, and Littleton, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications, which operates the Dish Network, sued the state in Wake County Superior Court after it refused to refund at least $35 million of sales tax on their services.

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RALEIGH -- El Segundo, Calif.-based Hughes Electronics, which operates DirecTV, and Littleton, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications, which operates the Dish Network, sued the state in Wake County Superior Court after it refused to refund at least $35 million of sales tax on their services. The satellite-TV...