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California Supreme Court chief justice Ron George, in his “State of the Judiciary” message to the legislature, said cutbacks in state courts’ budget and staffing have made the court system “hard-pressed to provide accessible justice.”

Legal Intelligencer: A Philadelphia jury awarded $3.45 million in compensatory damages and $6 million in punitive damages to an Alabama woman who says her breast cancer was caused by the hormone replacement therapy drug Prempro.

New York Times: Jennifer Saranow Schultz blogs about the new Federal Trade Commission rule that will require prominent online disclosures on Web sites that advertise free credit reports.

“In some cases, relatively healthy people check into the hospital for routine surgery. They develop sepsis because of a lapse in infection control—and they can die.”

Capitol Weekly: Consumer Attorneys of California president Christopher B. Dolan writes, “Those who play by the rules deserve protection from those who do not.”

Wall Street Journal: Cars have “black boxes” too, and perhaps they’ll be able to shed light on the sudden acceleration problems in Toyotas.

Mother Jones: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has stopped saying it represents more than 3 million businesses on its news releases.