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Huffington Post: The Department of Justice is reportedly preparing a lawsuit against the banking giant for allegedly steering African-Americans into higher-cost subprime mortgages.

Associated Press: Union Bank is one of dozens of financial institutions facing similar claims that they unfairly manipulated the order in which debit purchases were processed to increase overdraft fees.

New Orleans Times-Picayune: A judge has given preliminary approval to a $25 million settlement involving the company that owned Memorial Medical Center, where 45 bodies were recovered after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger: Bayer Healthcare allegedly did not provide adequate warnings about the health risks associated with the oral contraceptive, which has been lamed for causing blood clots, heart attacks and strokes.

Westlaw Journals: Attorneys say the information has implications for both economic-damage and personal injury/wrongful death cases against the automaker.

FairWarning.org: Sean Kane of Safety Research & Strategies writes, “We handed safety over to the machines long ago.” Now, he says, we need to update safety regulations.

Washington Post/Kaiser Health News: Even though medical experts agree operating on the wrong body part should never happen, some researchers say the problem of wrong-site surgery is getting worse.