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Los Angeles Daily Journal: Attorneys for Countrywide Financial have reportedly agreed to a $600 million settlement of a federal class action suit filed by investors who claim the company withheld information about the possible impact of a downturn in the housing market.

New York Times: Goldman Sachs’ numbers have been getting less attention than a lawsuit filed against the company by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

That’s the upshot of a report from the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation.

Associated Press: In the first in a series of federal lawsuits brought by homeowners whose homes have been ruined by sulfur-emitting Chinese drywall, seven Virginia families were awarded $2.6 million in damages.

McClatchy Newspapers: Public Citizen president Robert Weissman says an upcoming case before the U.S. Supreme Court will answer the question, “Can a corporation’s hand-picked arbitrator decide whether it is fair for the company to hand-pick its arbitrator?”

National Law Journal: The NAACP has dropped a lawsuit against Wells Fargo after the bank agreed to take steps to address racial discrimination in its lending policies.

New York Times: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it will make changes in the approval process for new radiotherapy equipment in order to reduce the number of errors related to medical radiation.