Welcome to Critical Mass, Law.com’s weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. I’m Max Mitchell in Philadelphia filling in your usual columnist Amanda Bronstad.

This week we’re beginning to see the litigation fallout from the nationwide college admissions scandal; meanwhile plaintiffs secured another verdict against Monsanto over its RoundUp weedkiller, and three class action suits are pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, with employers hoping to build on last year’s successful challenge to public sector union fees.