A Pennsylvania trial judge has found that talking on a cellphone while driving is not egregious enough to warrant punitive damages in a car accident case. The state Legislature passed a law that will ban texting while driving when it takes effect later this year, but it doesn’t outlaw talking on a cellphone.

The plaintiff in a car accident case does not have to accept a Facebook friend request from the defendant so that the defendant can have full access to the plaintiff’s postings and pictures, a Pennsylvania judge has ruled.

Retired Texas Supreme Court Justice Tom Phillips and his wife have reached a tentative settlement with plaintiffs whose daughter died in a car accident after allegedly attending a party hosted by the Phillipses’ son where underage drinking occurred.

Few at the Supreme Court were surprised by Justice Antonin Scalia’s car accident Tuesday. A skit by Court clerks once mocked his driving habits — and some years ago, Justice David Souter joked during an oral argument about Scalia’s driving.

The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office’s failure to inform a Staten Island couple that the office had removed and retained their late son’s brain violated the couple’s right of sepulcher, Brooklyn’s New York Appellate Division has ruled. Jesse Shipley, a 17-year-old Staten Island student, was killed in a car accident, and his father agreed to an autopsy. Two months later, classmates of Jesse’s sister were on a trip to Staten Island’s county mortuary and discovered a jar containing the brain with Shipley’s name printed on it.