The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that, starting next week, it will post the audio of all its oral arguments on the Friday after they occur. Since the Court only hears arguments on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, that means the release will be several days after the fact, making it of little use for contemporary reports by the news media

Generic drug manufacturers are not insulated from lawsuits by an FDA approval process that certifies such drugs as the “bioequivalent” of their brand-name predecessors, a federal judge has ruled. The judge refused to dismiss a suit brought by consumers who were taking Wellbutrin, a brand-name antidepressant, and who claim they had side effects upon switching to a generic. The suit alleges that two drug manufacturers failed to warn the public about differences that affected the release of the product’s active ingredient.

This is the Supreme Court’s final week of argument, with four cases left on the docket and dozens more still to be decided.

Thomas Russo’s old life as GC of the collapsed Lehman Brothers is in the news again with the release of the bankruptcy examiners’ report. Russo and Lehman’s legal department weren’t blamed for accounting chicanery, according to the report

Search warrants were served Wednesday at the Northern California offices of Yahoo and Google seeking additional information about Michael Barrett, who has been charged with one count of interstate stalking in connection with the release of naked videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. Among the items sought by FBI agents: a 42-second video entitled “Hot Blonde Out of Shower,” which was posted in June to Yahoo-owned Flickr.com by a user named “Breastboy.”