CNN reports a recall of various GM cars with common 3.8 liter engines due to potential fire hazards.

Court Seals Documents at Expense of Consumer Safety
An AAJ article June 4, 2009 looks at the practice of courts sealing litigation documents to the advantage of manufacturers in certain product cases. For example, Bausch & Lomb settled hundreds of cases involving contact solution that involved blindness where the court ordered the documents to be sealed.