Two years ago, President Obama made headlines at his State of the Union address by calling out the high court for its Citizens United decision, with six justices watching as he spoke. Tuesday, with jobs and the economy taking center stage, Obama and the cameras largely ignored the five justices in attendance.

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, will pay $158 million to settle litigation filed by the state of Texas and a whistleblower over allegedly false marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal for Medicaid patients.

Budget cuts imposed on New York’s state’s judiciary in 2011 have been “substantially harmful and far-reaching” to the operations of the courts, the New York State Bar Association concludes in a new report based on observations by litigants, lawyers and others.

Penn State University has announced that Cynthia Baldwin, who has held the position of general counsel, vice president and chief legal officer since January 2010, is stepping down from what the school calls a “transitional role” as the university’s first GC.

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.