On Monday, Major League Baseball levied its stiffest penalty for performance enhancing drug use in history, Twelve players were handed 50 game suspensions and accepted the ban. Then there was Alex Rodriguez, who was handed an unprecedented 211-game suspension and vowed to fight it before making his season debut on Monday against the White Sox. 

Legal analysts have tried to parse through exactly what ramifications the suspensions and A-Rod's appeal will have on the players, the league and on the weighty contracts MLB players hold.

A 70-year-old Kansas court employee was fired nine months before she was scheduled to retire for giving the sister of a convicted rapist a copy of a successful motion for DNA testing. So reports the Kansas City Star.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted a petition to suspend a lawyer for one year following his admission that he accepted oral sex from a client in exchange for defending her against a charge that she was driving under the influence of alcohol. So reports the Daily Report.

The 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last week issued a 57-page opinion upholding the conviction of a man who was sentenced to seven days in jail for defecating all over a federal courthouse bathroom.