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Illegal immigrant populations are shrinking in New York, Florida and the Mountain West state as undocumented workers relocate to states that offer more promise of finding work, such as Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. And overall, the drop in immigration has stabilized.

Is Arizona's "Legal Arizona Workers Act" -- which targets employers who knowingly employ illegal immigrants -- preempted by federal laws? The Supreme Court has agreed to hear challenges to the law on Wednesday. A final ruling is months away.

The SEC settled its case against Bank of America for failing to disclose Merrill Lynch's losses and bonus plans before their merger, but BofA shareholders are still seeking justice. On Friday, a judge refused to dismiss their claims, meaning they'll get their chance at a trial.

The new law will beef up armed patrols and increase funding for unmanned drones hunting for illegal immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and the U.S. President Obama, who hopes the measure will blunt anger over border security, signed the measure into law Friday.

In short, she found that federal law trumps the struck-down parts of Arizona's law because they imposed burdens on legal immigrants that only the federal government can impose, and because the law would force the U.S. government to reallocate resources away from its priorities, something states can't do.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton threw a monkey wrench into the deeply contentious debate over illegal immigration by declaring parts of Arizona's controversial immigration law to be unconstitutional. Backers of the bill, including Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, vow to keep fighting.

According to the SEC lawsuit that Dell just settled for $100 million, Dell cooked its books from 2002 to 2006 by using "exclusivity" payments from Intel totaling $4.3 billion to inflate its revenue numbers and otherwise fraudulently meet Wall Street analysts' expectations.

Polls show a link between the 8 million jobs lost during the Great Recession and a hostile attitude toward immigrants. These problems are adding to the pressure for new immigration policies -- and new jobs.

Pharmaceutical giant Novartis lost a huge gender discrimination case in May, and faced $250 million in punitive damages, plus possibly hundreds of millions more in compensatory damages. Rather than deal with years of appeals, both sides settled Wednesday for $152 million.

The U.S. is suing Arizona over the state's controversial new immigration law, which enables police to detain people suspected of illegally entering the country. The lawsuit thrusts the Obama administration into a heated debate as elections near.