The lawyers who represented a class of African-American farmers in a suit against the government that claimed loan discrimination are demanding $90.8 million in legal fees, the maximum allowed under the terms of a $1.25 billion settlement.

The former chief operating officer at the law firm run by convicted Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein was sentenced Friday to the maximum 10 years in federal prison for her role in the $1.2 billion fraud.

A Minnesota man who spent nearly 2 1/2 years in prison for a fatal Toyota crash in 2006 walked free Thursday, after a judge ordered a new trial and a prosecutor said she wouldn’t prolong the case, which was reopened in the wake of the carmaker’s widely publicized sudden acceleration problems. Koua Fong Lee was convicted of charges including criminal vehicular homicide and sentenced to the maximum eight years. A prosecutor said ineffective counsel was a compelling reason not to try the case again.

A jury in a high-profile federal copyright infringement trial on Friday ordered a Boston University graduate student to pay $675,000 to several record companies for illegally downloading and distributing 30 of their songs. Joel Tenenbaum appeared stoic as the jury announced that each of the 30 counts of willful infringement would cost him $22,500. Though steep, the tab is far less than the $4.5 million that the companies could have received had the jury imposed the maximum per-song damages allowed under law.