Credit repair organizations can require consumers to arbitrate their claims, the Supreme Court has ruled, rejecting arguments by consumer and senior citizen groups that the federal Credit Repair Organizations Act gives consumers a non-waivable right to go to court with claims of unfair or deceptive practices.

The lawyer for a fired employee of the Maryland judiciary urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to find that states can be sued when they refuse to give their employees leave for serious illnesses under a key provision of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

A former librarian for a New Jersey law firm can proceed with her federal suit asserting she was falsely accused of pulling a fire alarm and wrongfully discharged as a result, a judge has ruled.

Drug maker Actavis has agreed to pay $118.6 million to settle allegations that it caused the federal government and four states to pay oversized Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements for generic drugs. The settlement comes on the heels of a separate settlement between Actavis and Texas for $84 million.

Plaintiffs lawyers were granted $315 million in common benefit funds from the $4.85 billion settlement that Merck reached in the Vioxx multidistrict litigation in 2007.