The 3rd Circuit has found that doctors challenging President Obama’s health care plan had suffered no injury, and so lacked standing to sue. The 3rd Circuit is the second federal appeals court to hear a challenge to the health care act.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has further reduced the claims Yolanda Young can pursue in her racial discrimination suit against Covington & Burling, where she worked as a staff attorney. Determining that Young lacked standing to pursue the job-assignment portion of her disparate impact claim, the judge granted Covington’s motion for partial summary judgment on that count. The decision was the latest victory for Covington in a case that has already amassed what the judge described as a “rich procedural history.”

U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel’s July 22 judgment in San Francisco Technology Inc.