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The National Football League won preliminary approval of a settlement worth at least $675 million resolving ex-players’ claims that officials failed to warn them about links between concussions and brain injuries.

Johnson & Johnson improperly destroyed files about some vaginal-mesh implants and may have to let juries weighing lawsuits over the devices hear evidence about the destruction, a court official said.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington rejected a bid by environmental groups to block plans by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to lease federal tracts in the Wyoming Powder River Basin for coal mining.

Texas is among several states facing legal battles over new abortion restrictions such as hospital-privilege requirements for providers.

Ronald L. Motley was a South Carolina lawyer who spearheaded lawsuits against tobacco companies that led them to agree to pay $246 billion in the biggest civil settlement in U.S. history.

AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. phone company, refused to carry the Qatar-based broadcaster’s new U.S. cable-news channel as part of its pay-television service.

SRA International Inc. persuaded a judge to throw out an investor’s lawsuit challenging Providence Equity Partners’s $1.88 billion buyout of the provider of computer services to the U.S. government.

U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton’s Aug. 5 ruling brings the amount Pfizer must pay Margaret Fraser over her claims the hormone-replacement medicine caused her cancer to $5.76 million.

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Orthofix International, a maker of bone-repair and sports medicine products, said it agreed to pay $42 million to resolve a criminal probe of allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors who used its bone-growth products.

BP may face as much as $17.6 billion in civil pollution fines and possibly billions of dollars more in criminal penalties as its settlement with businesses and individuals harmed by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill shifts the focus to government claims.

GlaxoSmithKline, which is paying $3 billion to resolve government claims that it illegally marketed drugs such as the Avandia diabetes medication, agreed to settle more lawsuits over the pills, a lawyer said.