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A federal judge in Chicago rules today that LA Times’ journalists’ suit can continue against Tribune Company chairman Sam Zell and a bank that helped structure the ill-fated $8.3 billion deal. The judge rejected Zell’s request that the suit be thrown out

As Toyota struggles with a massive recall over its cars unexpectedly accelerating, the California Bar Association cleared the automaker’s former in-house counsel of violating attorney-client privilege when he divulged information about roll-over accidents, the Daily Journal discloses today.

Cigarette makers pay good money for their friends. The American Tort Reform Association’s membership list is a “who’s who” of moneyed interests including Big Tobacco. They spend heavily to keep individuals from getting a fair shake in the courtroom.

University of Phoenix will pay $78.5 million to settle a lawsuit by whistle blowers Mary Hendow and Julie Albertson, who helped expose that the nation’s largest for-profit school had violated federal law.

A national study shows that insurance companies–not individuals and not physicians–benefit from restrictions on damages that victims of medical negligence receive.

Bayer’s big selling birth control pills, Yaz and Yasmin, may carry more risk but are no more effective than traditional birth control pills. The products are the focus of major litigation.

Pregnant African-American women who live near freeways are far more likely to have miscarriages than women who don’t regularly breathe exhaust fumes. So do nonsmokers.