The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the Constitutionality of limits on the overall amount of a person's political contributions, according to an article in the New York Times.

A federal appeals court vacated a class-action lawsuit settlement that would have paid $14 million to the class plaintiffs' attorneys and roughly $18 million to charities designated by the parties but only $3 million to the plaintiffs, according to a Reuters article.

Random alcohol tests administered to new employees at a U.S. Steel plant in Pennsylvania are necessary and job-related, a federal district court judge held this week.