Cash Flow: Three pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pay the government $421 million to settle allegations over the reporting of falsely inflated drug prices used to set government health care reimbursement rates, The National Law Journal reports. The Justice Department settled average wholesale pricing cases against Abbott Laboratories Inc. B. Braun Medical Inc. and Roxane Laboratories Inc., which is now known as Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Inc.
Terror: A national intelligence report this week revealed that two former Guantanamo Bay detainees who were resettled have engaged in terrorist activities and three others are suspected of returning to the fight, The Washington Post reports.
Going There, Again: Nearly two hundred professors from dozens of law schools are calling on the Association of American Law Schools to rescind its decision to hold the meeting in January at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. The National Law Journal reports the professors oppose the hotel because of an ongoing dispute between its management and a union representing unskilled and lightly skilled hotel workers.
Operation Ivy League: The Wall Street Journal reports on the arrest of five Columbia University students, booked on charges they sold narcotics out of fraternity houses and on-campus residences. Undercover New York Police Department officers made 31 purchases from the students, totaling nearly $11,000.
Violated: City officials in Cary, North Carolina, violated a homeowner's free speech rights in assessing fines against the man for a spraypainted message on his house. The man says a city road-widening project left his yard tree-less. His painted message on his house said the city "screwed" him. More here.
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