Aspiring lawyers who sat for the July 2014 bar examination are eligible for $90 each from software company ExamSoft Worldwide Inc. under a class action settlement. ExamSoft has agreed to pay $2.1 million to bar takers who ran into technical problems while trying to upload their exam responses last year. Participants filed five separate lawsuits in California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Washington and Florida following the exam, which became known on the Internet as "Barmaggedon." New York Law Journal has more (subscription required).

The Chattanooga Police Department is launching a team of investigators that will be dedicated exclusively to working sex crime and domestic violence cases, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. The new special victims unit, which will include six detectives, aims to take over the investigation of all of the department's sex crimes by June 8, said Lt. Darrell Whitfield.

A $200 million settlement has been reached to pay out claims in the 2012 nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis that was first detected in Nashville and was traced to an injectable steroid made by Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Center (NECC). The outbreak sickened 778 people across the country, killing 76, according to an investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Tennessee was one of the hardest hit states with a total of 153 people sickened and 16 deaths. Dozens of civil lawsuits from across the country were consolidated into the bankruptcy filing of NECC. About 3,770 people nationwide have filed claims against the company. The Tennessean has the story.

The House approved long-awaited legislation yesterday to combat human trafficking, sending it to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act will expand law enforcement tools to target sex traffickers, create a new fund to help victims, and define child pornography production as a form of trafficking. Obama is expected to sign it. The Greeneville Sun has more from the AP.

Cory Batey is asking for a mistrial as well as a new one in the Vanderbilt University rape case almost a week after his former co-defendant Brandon Vandenburg’s attorneys motioned for the same thing. With less than a month before his sentencing, Batey’s lawyer said the Jan. 27 guilty verdict should be set aside due to questions on whether the jury foreman misrepresented himself by not disclosing that he was a victim of sexual abuse. News 2 has more.

A GOP-controlled House panel has approved a $51 billion measure authorizing modest budget hikes for the Justice Department and NASA, but the legislation falls well short of what's needed to win President Barack Obama's signature. The bill increases funding for space exploration and efforts to fight cybercrime but cuts legal aid for the poor, the decennial census and weather satellites. It also eliminates a grant program that helps local police departments hire new officers. The legislation is one of 12 annual spending measures advancing through Congress, but like its predecessors, it is sure to face a veto threat. News Channel 9 has more from the AP.

Four big banks will pay $2.5 billion in fines and plead guilty to criminally manipulating the global currency markets going back to 2007, the Associated Press reports. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Barclays and The Royal Bank of Scotland conspired with one another to fix rates on U.S. dollars and euros traded in the huge global market for currencies, according to a settlement announced today between the banks and U.S. Justice Department. Knoxnews has the story.

The official magazine of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis asked 20 students 20 questions about their law school experience. From best dressed classmate to most intimidating moment, read more about their thoughts on law school and Memphis itself.

Attorneys who will be leading TBA Sections and Committees joined with YLD leaders in Nashville this past weekend for a series of training and orientation programs. The new leaders took part in sessions on effective meeting planning, communications and CLE programming, and learned about  public service programs offered by the TBA. View photos from the event.

With a Blount County judge’ decision Friday to toss the results of a search warrant, the horse soring case against a Maryville trainer is all but over, the Daily Times reports (subscription required). Circuit Court Judge Tammy Harrington said authorities skirted the law while gathering evidence against horse trainer Larry Joe Wheelon, evidence which led to formal charges. After hearing testimony from several witnesses during Friday’s hearing, Harrington agreed to suppress the results of a search of Wheelon’s stables, stating that the “undercover” visits violated Wheelon’s Fourth Amendment rights. The Blount County District Attorney General’s Office still has the opportunity to file an appeal.