A Massachusetts law intended to give defendants acquitted of criminal charges a fresh start by automatically sealing a court’s record does not prevent them or their attorneys from accessing the files, the state’s high court ruled on Tuesday. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

The former CEO of Yara International, a fertilizer company whose largest shareholder is the Norwegian government, had his conviction for bribery of Indian and Libyan officials reversed by an appeals court jury in Oslo on Friday, according to published reports. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A Chicago doctor convicted of accepting kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals as part of an elaborate scheme to defraud federal health programs at the city’s Sacred Heart Hospital appealed his three-month sentence to the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday. Law360: acquitted