Attorneys for pop star Robin Thicke and his co-collaborators on the song "Blurred Lines" last week filed a preemptive lawsuit asking a judge to determine that the ‘song of the summer’ doesn't infringe the copyrights of Marvin Gaye song “Got to Give It Up” and George Clinton song “Sexy Ways.” So reports the New York Daily News.

A jury last week ordered the medical device company C.R. Bard to pay $250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.75 million in punitive damages in the first trial of one of thousands of cases of injuries allegedly sustained from vaginal mesh pending in West Virginia federal court. So Bloomberg reports.

As society undergoes a natural evolution of scientific progress, the courts must grapple with the ramifications of those changes. Actor Jason Patric’s push for an amendment to a California law is the latest example of the marriage of law and science.

In a 9-5 decision, a U.S. appeals court last week held that a Pennsylvania school district cannot ban "I (Heart) Boobies!" bracelets intended to promote breast cancer awareness. That’s “because the bracelets here are not plainly lewd and because they comment on a social issue.” So USA Today reports.