An Arkansas Supreme Court ruling has deemed the decision by a jury on fraud-related charges filed against Johnson & Johnson and its Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit was based on a law that covers health-care facilities, Reuters said.
A trial judge has dismissed assault charges filed against US Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair by a former lover as part of a plea deal, but said choice words against the defendant for his adulterous affair, Reuters said.
An amicus brief by the ACLU of Illinois argued that the audiorecording law used by the Illinois Supreme Court to prosecute DeForest Clark for recording his child custody hearing and a private conversation was in danger of prosecuting innocent people in the future.
New Jersey Governer Chris Christie told one attendee that he will be reserving his judgement on former deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly, whom he had fired amid the scandal over lane closures at the George Washington Bridge , CBS News said.
