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A two-judge New Jersey state appeals panel reversed most of an order declining Quest Diagnostics Inc.'s bid to toss a 72-year-old stroke survivor's proposed class action against it on Thursday, but said the "lack of clarity" in the man's complaint saved him from full dismissal.

The Ohio Supreme Court voted on party lines Tuesday to take up the Buckeye State's appeal of an order blocking its controversial law that essentially forbids abortion once cardiac activity can first be detected, potentially as early as six weeks into pregnancy.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday it will launch a special investigation into Norfolk Southern Railway's internal culture and safety practices, and it pushed the company to "implement necessary changes" to make its trains safer following the recent toxic derailment in Ohio.

Three men and their company Bitcoin of America are facing charges in Ohio of money laundering, conspiracy and other crimes after they allegedly operated over 50 unlicensed cryptocurrency kiosks in Northeast Ohio and facilitated fraudulent transactions through them.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday pressed the state of New York to show why New Jersey couldn't unilaterally leave a bistate compact to police their shared, historically mob-invested shipping port, suggesting that the compact's lack of exit terms muddles the issue. 

A New Jersey state appeals panel ruled Tuesday that a lower court had wrongly opened merits-based discovery in a sexual abuse lawsuit before deciding if the case, brought against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia by a former altar boy, even belonged in the Garden State.

A conservative nonprofit hit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Ohio counterpart with a federal lawsuit Monday alleging they put on a "delicately staged farce or a stunning display of incompetence" following the toxic train derailment in East Palestine earlier this month.

Roche Diagnostics Corporation and its related entities slammed Zions Bancorporation N.A.'s counterclaims against it in an ongoing fight over the purported role the bank played in a health firm's alleged diabetes test strips fraud scheme that bilked Roche out of $87 million.

Home health companies serving former energy workers with radiation-related illnesses have agreed to pay $9 million to resolve newly unsealed claims that they "bribed" those workers into becoming their patients by offering free services including lawn mowing, then billed the United States as if those services were medical treatments the government pays for.

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin cannot enforce the Garden State's new law allowing it to sue gunmakers for endangering public safety, according to a federal judge's order blocking him from doing so while a firearms trade group challenges the statute.