The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to consider two cases brought by business owners who, based on their religious beliefs, object to providing certain types of birth control coverage required by President Obama's signature health care law. So the Associated Press reports.

In a ruling that reinforces photographers’ rights in the era of social media, a Manhattan jury last week awarded $1.22 million to a photographer whose pictures of the 2010 Haitian earthquake were sold without his permission after he posted them on Twitter. So The New York Times reports.

A Brooklyn appeals court jury has recently absolved a young woman driver who took her hands off the wheel to cover her chest after one of the passengers had playfully untied her bikini top. So reports The New York Daily News.

The advanced merger talks between Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, which we reported on last month, fell apart last week. So reports The New York Times’ DealBook.