A federal judge in Nebraska last week ordered the government to pay a woman the more than $39,000 in attorneys’ fees that she spent fighting to get back $1 million that she had earned as an exotic dancer. So the Lincoln Journal Star reports.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio last week announced that the city has entered into an agreement with civil rights attorneys to reform its policy of allowing police to "stop-and-frisk" a person who they have a reasonable suspicion has committed a crime or is about to commit a crime. So the Los Angeles Times reports.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week issued a four-sentence-long order temporarily excusing a group of Catholic nuns and a manager of healthcare plans for Catholic groups from having to comply with the portion of Obamacare that requires employers to provide insurance that covers contraception. So Reuters reports.

To annul possible bias in favor of hiring graduates from highbrow schools, the UK offices of the internationally renowned law firm Clifford Chance keep staff who are conducting final interviews with potential recruits in the dark about where the candidates were educated. So reports the British newspaper The Independent.