The family of 31-year old Karla Brada Mendez, a woman who died a violent death in 2011, has filed a lawsuit against Alcoholics Anonymous contending that AA had a “reckless disregard for … the safety and security of victims attending AA meetings who are repeatedly preyed upon at those meetings by financial, violent, and sexual predators. So reports ProPublica.

A lawyer representing a man who received a cease-and-desist letter from the township attorney for West Orange, N.J., has written a response to the letter that is so critical of the letter's commonly used, pretentious legalese that it has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on the web. So reports Above The Law.

The Supreme Court says prosecutors can use a person's silence against them if it comes before he's told of his right to remain silent.

Long blamed for the kind of hospital secrecy about error that compromises patient safety, medical-malpractice lawsuits are actually becoming a source of valuable information about medical error.