Were dozens of banks complicit in the $3 billion fraud that toppled the cable company? With Judge Lawrence McKenna's refusal to grant the banks' motion to dismiss the Adelphia trustee's case against them, we may get an answer.

Do the federal courts have to abide by Florida Supreme Court rules that relieve plaintiffs in smoker suits from the burden of proving that tobacco companies knowingly sold dangerous products? The industry says that's unconstitutional, but plaintiffs lawyers say it's just common sense.