Injunction: Am Law Litigation Daily reports a Manhattan federal district judge has granted a preliminary injunction stopping Ecuadorian plaintiffs from enforcing a $9 billion judgment against Chevron for alleged contamination in a region of the Amazon River basin.
"Mental issues": Federal prosecutors want alleged Tuscon shooter Jared Lee Loughner to undergo testing for "mental issues" prior to standing trial, POLITICO reports. Autopsy reports in the shooting were also released Monday.
Retiring: Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) announced that he will not seek a third term in 2012, The Washington Post reports. In 2009, Ensign admitted he had an affair with a former campaign staffer, and is still under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee for payments made to the staffer's husband, a former top Ensign staffer.
Charter schools: A financial executive accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of mishandling millions of dollars set aside by D.C. officials for charter schools will pay a $130,000 penalty to the federal government, The Washington Post reports.
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