Al Jazeera sued: Professional baseball stars Ryan Zimmerman and Ryan Howard on Tuesday sued Al Jazeera America over its report last month accusing them of using performance-enhancing drugs. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partners William Burck and Robert Raskopf filed the suit for Zimmerman, and Andrew Herman of Miller & Chevalier brought the suit on behalf of Howard. The cases were filed in Washington federal district court.

The news organization “publicly smeared Mr. Zimmerman with false and unsubstantiated allegations of performance-enhancing drug use, based on uncorroborated accusations by a third party that had been unequivocally recanted prior to defendants' publication,” Zimmerman's complaint alleged. Al Jazeera “chose to publish their defamatory story in an attempt to stir scandal and increase Al Jazeera's low ratings, no matter the cost to Mr. Zimmerman.”

The Washington Post covers the lawsuits here, and Reuters here.

Abortion stories: More than 100 women lawyers joined in an amicus brief to tell the U.S. Supreme Court about their own abortions, the NLJ's Tony Mauro reports. The brief, filed by a team from Paul Weiss, supports Whole Woman's Health in its challenge to Texas abortion regulations. USA Today has this report: “Abortion case at Supreme Court gets personal.”

Failure to launch: The New York Times reports that the two-year law school experiment isn't going so well. “The only elite school to adopt it, the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, this fall ended its accelerated two-year juris doctor program after it failed to attract enough applicants,” the NYT reports.

Deposition delayed: The planned Wednesday deposition of Bill Cosby's wife was put on hold to allow an appeal. A federal magistrate judge in Boston granted Camille Cosby's emergency motion to stay the deposition. Meanwhile, Reuters reports that the deposition will be kept under seal.

Creigh Deeds' complaint: “In a $6 million lawsuit, Virginia Sen. Creigh Deeds claims that his son died as the result of neglect by the state's fragmented mental health system,” the Roanoke Times reports. The Washington Post has more here on the suit.