In a ruling that creates a split among the federal appeals courts on the constitutionality of the 2010 federal health care overhaul, the 11th Circuit on Friday struck down the part of the statute that requires individuals to obtain health insurance.

Just one day after a phone-hacking scandal forced U.K. tabloid News of the World to cease operations, plaintiffs in a four-month-old shareholder derivative suit added new allegations of massive mismanagement on the part of News Corp.’s board of directors.

The Georgia Supreme Court dealt a two-pronged blow to plaintiffs lawyers Monday, rejecting challenges to two parts of a 2005 tort reform package. The court split 4-3 to uphold a rule that demanded evidence of gross negligence on the part of emergency room doctors in order to sustain a medical malpractice claim

What may have been a case of oversharing on the part of a DLA Piper associate has dragged the firm into court to defend a legal malpractice lawsuit. Former client George Sutton & Associates, a San Diego software company, claimed in a complaint filed on Tuesday that DLA Piper unlawfully “rifled through” its files and disclosed confidential information to a third party, resulting in about $1.2 million in damages.