COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio will get $5 million as part of a global settlement with drug maker Sanofi-Aventis, which was accused of cheating Medicaid on the cost of nasal sprays.

The settlement was first announced in May and totals $95.5 million. Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray announced the state's share Friday.

The money will be paid by Aventis Pharmaceutical Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC.

The U.S. Justice Department charged that between 1995 and 2000, Aventis and its corporate predecessors did not offer Medicaid the best prices for the sprays Azmacort, Nasacort and Nasacort AQ.

Medicaid is a state and federally funded health care program for the poor.

In reaching the settlement, New Jersey-based Sanofi-Aventis did not admit any wrongdoing.

Canada high court rules for Wal-Mart in union case

TORONTO -- The Supreme Court of Canada said Friday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was entitled to close a store in Quebec in 2005, seven months after workers voted to become the first Wal-Mart in North America to unionize.

The highest court in Canada ruled in a 6-3 margin that the multinational had the right to shut down the outlet in Jonquiere, Quebec, and lay off 190 employees.

Justice Ian Binnie wrote for the majority, saying that the court had "endorsed the view that no legislation obliges an employer to remain in business." And that, "the closure did not constitute an unfair labor practice aimed at hindering the union or the employees from exercising rights under the labor code."

A Wal-Mart Canada spokesman said the ruling is consistent with previous decisions from a Quebec labor commission and the Quebec Superior Court and Quebec Court of Appeal.

"The situation in Jonquiere was an unfortunate situation," said Andrew Pelletier, the vice president of corporate affairs. "I think most people know that Wal-Mart tried to keep the store open."

The world's largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark., opened its Jonquiere, Quebec, store in 2001. In September 2004, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union was certified to represent employees of the Wal-Mart store, becoming the retailer's first employees in North America to form a union.

Wal-Mart closed the store in April 2005, just before an arbitrator was to impose a collective agreement for the 190 recently unionized employees.

During the Supreme Court hearings early this year, the company denied it fired its employees because they had just formed a union.

The company said they were let go simply because the store was not profitable and was shutting down.

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