Health Suit Complication?: A small-business owner who is a key plaintiff in the 26-state suit against the Obama health-care law has closed her business and filed for bankruptcy, which may complicate her legal standing to be part of the suit, the WSJ reports . The suit relied in part on the financial burden the plaintiff, who owned an auto-repair shop, said she’d experience under the law starting in 2014, but experts say it will be harder for her to now argue that she will be harmed. A lawyer representing the woman and the National Federation of Independent Business says if her standing is questioned the group could sue on behalf of other small-business owners. The Supreme Court will hear and rule on the case in 2012. Mom U Shld B Reassured: A study published in Pediatrics suggest that “sexting” by teens may be a lot less common than previously thought, with only about 1% of 10- to 17-year-olds passing along explicit images, the Associated Press reports . Another study suggests that it’s relatively rare for kids to be prosecuted for sexting. Patent Dispute:

The Supreme Court will this week hear a suit dealing with Prometheus Laboratories’ patents on a test to set drug dosages for Crohn’s disease patients, the WSJ reports . The Mayo Clinic, which wants to offer its own test, claims Prometheus improperly wants patent protection for the right to observe the body’s response to treatments. Dispute Over Anti-Abortion Tactics: There’s a rift in the anti-abortion movement, with some groups pursuing the aggressive tactics epitomized by the recent (and failed) Mississippi personhood amendment and a state bill in Ohio that would make abortion illegal once the fetus’s heartbeat is detected and other groups continuing a more gradual approach, the New York Times reports . The Ohio bill would effectively ban abortions six to eight weeks into a pregnancy and critics say it would clearly conflict with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe vs. Wade, which established fetal viability — now at around 24 weeks — as the cutoff for abortion, the paper says. Image: iStockphoto

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A.M. Vitals: Standing for Plaintiff in Health-Law Suit May Be in Question