Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 1/31/08

It’s the last day in January, which is cause for some degree of celebration. We’ve got ten more posts to showcase as we move towards a hopefully sunny Super Bowl weekend – which, as Diane Pfadenhauer points out below, will almost surely result in a mess of the Monday blues.

• Subprime claims now projected to cost $9 billion – New York attorney Alan Rutkin of Rivkin Radler in the firm’s Insurance Coverage Lawyer Blog
• Federal court issues decision critical of the Corps of Engineers while granting the Corps immunity related to Hurricane Katrina – Pennsylvania lawyer Michael Payne of Payne Hackenbracht & Sullivan in the firm’s Federal Construction Contracting Blog
• Beware funeral home sandwiches and coffee – Kansas State University professor Doug Powell in the International Food Safety Network’s Barf Blog
• Physician must comply with terms of non-competition agreement – Baton Rouge attorney Valeria A. Judice of Kean Miller in the firm’s Louisiana Law Blog
• The judge who’ll judge Rosenthal – Dallas lawyer Majed Nachawati of Fears Nachawati in the firm’s Texas Injury Law Blog
• The impact of divorce on children – Philadelphia attorney Katherine R. Sookhoo of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Pennsylvania Family Law Blog
• Super Bowl Monday "flu" – 1.5 million to call in sick – EP Advisors’ Diane Pfadenhauer in her Strategic HR Lawyer Blog
• Big book on big issues…Class Actions: The Law of 50 States – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at McGlinchey Stafford in the firm’s CAFA Law Blog
• Named plaintiff controls transfer determination – Illinois attorney R. David Donoghue of DLA Piper in his Chicago IP Litigation Blog
• Reinhardt Commission Report: New Jersey hospitals need to focus on blocking and tackling – New Jersey attorney Richard J. Webb of Healthcare Neutral in the Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog