“Most N.D. Supreme Court justices, attorneys in Fighting Sioux nickname case have UND ties”: This article appeared yesterday in The Grand Forks Herald.

“Georgia, Alabama illegal immigration laws headed to appeals court Thursday”: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

“In this case we are asked to determine whether a physician owes nonpatients a duty to exercise reasonable care in the affirmative act of prescribing medications that pose a risk of injury to third parties.” So begins an opinion that Justice Thomas R. Lee issued on Tuesday on behalf of a unanimous Supreme Court of Utah.

In coverage of the ruling, The Deseret News reported yesterday that “Utah Supreme Court rules medical staff had duty to children in David Ragsdale case.”

Yesterday’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune contained an article headlined “Utah justices: Patient’s family must be considered in treatment; Decision comes in response to suit that claims drugs given to man contributed to his shooting his wife.”

And The Daily Herald of Provo, Utah reported yesterday that “Supreme court allows kids of killer to sue medical providers.”