Given what happened to the Crimson Tide on Saturday in Atlanta, we're guessing many Alabamians would like to erase all memory of that city. But two notorious citizens of the Yellowhammer State--former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy and former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman--are counting on an Atlanta-based appellate panel for salvation. Today three Eleventh Circuit judges in Atlanta will hear an appeal of Scrushy and Siegelman's 2006 bribery convictions, which they claim were based on a slew of prosecutorial missteps and other injustices.

When the government raised antitrust concerns about VeriFone's $485 million deal to buy Hypercom, the parties tried to appease the government by agreeing to sell some of Hypercom's assets. But the DOJ claimed that sale was a sham.

Remember the revolution the Great Recession was supposed to wreak in the relationship between corporations and the law firms that represent them? It's becoming increasingly clear that we skipped right over revolution and went straight to restoration.

Two different federal appellate courts have now been asked to answer a multibillion-dollar question for peddlers of mortgage-backed securities: Can the federal agency unwinding a group of failed credit unions and the conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dodge the usual time limits for bringing securities claims?