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.

A Texas federal judge has declared portions of the state Alcoholic Beverage Code unconstitutional as they apply to the advertisement and labeling of beer. Calling the issue “anything but ‘dry,’” he wrote that “this Court would never be so foolish as to question the sincerity of Texans’ interest in beer.”

Stephen Glass, the disgraced former journalist fighting to be admitted to the California State Bar, has brought in new appellate lawyers to make his case to the state’s highest court. They’re making that case aggressively, accusing the State Bar of committing ethical lapses and putting Glass in an unfair catch-22.

The Montana Supreme Court has issued a blistering rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court, rejecting its landmark decision giving corporations the right to make independent campaign expenditures. The state high court ruled that banning such spending is justified given Montana’s long history of businesses corrupting the state’s political process.

Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., in his year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary, offered a vigorous defense of the Supreme Court’s handling of ethical issues. He also said he has “complete confidence in the capability of my colleagues to determine when recusal is warranted.”