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The Missourian: The suit alleges UMB Bank has “unfairly manipulated transactions to generate more overdraft fees.”

New York Times: The folks at FreeCreditReport.com have figured out how to get around the requirement that they tell consumers the only actual source of free credit reports is the federal government’s AnnualCreditReport.com site.

The Am Law Daily: Zach Lowe writes, “The unusually bitter battle that’s playing out between the law firms involved in the case escalated this week to a level of nastiness we’ve seldom seen.”

Detroit Free Press: “Tort reform is the equivalent of choosing not to prosecute criminals so they can remain on the streets to do more crime. We all suffer and pay as a society while the wrongdoers continue to make more profits without penalty.”

The Legal Intelligencer: “Genetic defects in sperm from a sperm bank cannot form the basis for a products liability suit.”

New Jersey Law Journal: “The defendants lost on every issue, including the standard of causation to be applied in light of the plaintiff’s short history of working with asbestos-laden materials.”

ABC News: Federal records catalog the problems at the Upper Big Branch mine, operated by the Performance Coal Company.