Two 11th Circuit judges sounded open to the idea that bananas could be a tool of racial harassment in a case where a black plaintiff claims harassment drove him from his job at UPS Ground Freight, but the judges had other questions about the plaintiff’s case.

A 7th Circuit panel has reversed the dismissal of an antitrust class action against Northshore University Health System. The ruling, which allows the plaintiffs to pursue their claim that Northshore illegally inflated its rates after a merger, should help other class actions get past the certification stage.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case in which an employment lawyer was denied qualified immunity in a civil rights suit stemming from his assistance in a city’s internal affairs probe. The 9th Circuit held that everyone else — the city and its officers — was entitled to immunity.

A split 9th Circuit panel has decertified a nationwide false advertising class action against Honda’s U.S. subsidiary, ruling that California’s consumer protection law is too different from those in other states to permit class litigation.

The 10th Circuit has upheld a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of an Oklahoma ballot initiative that banned the practice of Sharia law, the religious law of Islam. A trial judge granted the injunction in a constitutional challenge brought two days after the state’s voters approved the initiative last November.