Goldman Sachs has endured a long losing streak in a sexual discrimination class action brought by three former female employees back in 2010. But the bank's lawyers at Paul Hastings and Sullivan & Cromwell finally caught a break Thursday in a key decision for Title VII defendants.

This isn't the first time the tobacco industry has tried to thwart the Food and Drug Administration's onerous new rules, which require that future cigarette packs contain disturbing pictures showing the ravages of smoking. Two years ago a group of tobacco companies filed a lawsuit in Kentucky federal court, but a judge upheld most aspects of the law. Now tobacco companies are taking aim at the law's regulations in D.C. federal court.

Chocolate chip cookies. Baseball bats. Amazon plants. Not a game show quiz, but hypotheticals by U.S. Supreme Court justices trying to decide whether human genes should be patented.