Remember when Dickie Scruggs was accused of using a Mississippi lawyer named Ed Peters to exert improper influence on a state court judge named Bobby DeLaughter? Well, it turns out Scruggs wasn't the only one who had that brilliant idea.

Proskauer Rose has been retained by Major League Baseball to fight the scandal-soaked suit filed Friday by embattled New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and his lawyers from Reed Smith, Gordon & Rees, and New York's Tacopina Seigel & Turano.

No word yet on affirmative action, voting rights, or same-sex marriage, but the justices did resolve three of the outstanding 26 cases to be decided, ruling on issues as diverse as arbitration, sentencing, and even raisins.

Greenberg Traurig and Quarles & Brady have agreed to fork over a combined $87.5 million to resolve claims that they failed to put the brakes on a $900 million Ponzi scheme carried out by two mortgage-industry clients.