A federal lawsuit filed by seven former employees of a for-profit chain of trade schools owned by Premier Education Group alleges that the schools’ officials routinely misled students about their career prospects. The suit also claims the school falsified records to keep students enrolled so that it could keep receiving tuition money granted and loaned to those students by the government. So the New York Times reports.

Gay rights activists are up in arms over a bill passed by the Arizona legislature last week that would strengthen a business owner’s right to refuse service to gays if the owner believes doing so violates his or her religion. So reports the Los Angeles Times.

A California man who now goes by the name “Kwame Seku” claims a DNA test proves he is a father of three from New York City who was formerly known as “Winston Bright.” Bright has been missing for decades and was deemed deceased by a judge in 2000. So reports the New York Daily News.

February saw its fair share of interesting verdicts -- from rulings on Justin Beiber's urine tests to decisions on the fate of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline.