Every weekday morning, Precedent scours the headlines to find stories likely to be today's hot topics.

• Mental health lawyers in Ontario have joined the legal aid boycott, while in B.C., plans were introduced to lay off 54 legal aid workers as a cost-cutting measure. [The Globe and Mail]
• Wal-Mart will pay as much as $85 million after losing a wage-and-hour class action suit filed in 2004. [Law.com]
• Conrad Black’s memoirs will most likely be released next fall, and will include the outcome of his upcoming Supreme Court appeal. [Toronto Star]
• An American law professor dismissed his own privacy suit against the website Above the Law. [ABA Journal]
• Editorial: Grocer who apprehended and bound a known shoplifter was “acting within his rights as a citizen” and should not have been charged.[Globe and Mail]
• Margaret Wente: Vigilante shopkeeper has been given a hard lesson in the workings of Canada’s justice system. [Globe and Mail]
• Bankruptcy lawyers in the U.S. will continue to be busy, according to the latest statistics. [National Post]
  

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