The general counsel of Safeway, a Fortune 100 company, tried to make like Jay Leno and tell a joke at the supermarket chain’s annual meeting this week. However, some folks weren’t amused and are now branding Robert Gordon a sexist and vowing not to shop at the retailer.

A woman who was prescribed medications for off-label uses doesn’t have standing to sue the drug company that marketed them, the Third Circuit has ruled. Angela Montgomery failed to show that her doctor prescribed the medicine, Rebetol, because of Schering-Plough’s marketing strategy, the circuit held.

A federal judge has dismissed a potential subclass of plaintiffs from a suit that charges that West Publishing and LexisNexis’ digital collection and sale of publicly filed legal briefs and memoranda violate U.S. copyright law. The judge dismissed a class of attorneys who have not obtained copyright registration for their briefs.

Does the Class Action Fairness Act give the federal courts jurisdiction over claims by more than 400 Illinois plaintiffs suing Abbott Laboratories over its Depakote anti-seizure drug? Two federal judges in the state came up with very different answers.

Law enforcement representatives and privacy advocates clashed Thursday on Capitol Hill over a bill that would require law enforcement to get a search warrant before getting cellular phone data that can track the user’s location.