Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 7/2/08

Tons of chatter in the legal blogs this morning on a wide range of issues: from Zach Scruggs’ sentencing to hands free cell phone laws to DWI-related blood tests, the discussion is lively and worth reading for anyone who has a free minute.

• Zach Scruggs gets 14 months prison time – Portland attorney David Rossmiller of Dunn Carney in the firm’s Insurance Coverage Law Blog
• Extension period shortened for forms 1065, 1041 and 8804 – Chapel Hill lawyer Greg Herman-Giddens of TrustCounsel PA in his North Carolina Estate Planning Blog
• Supreme Court – AGAIN – reverses Superior Court on power of attorney case – Attorney Kendra McGuire of Barley Snyder in the firm’s Pennsylvania Litigation Blog
• How do you cross-examine an ostrich? – New York lawyer Angelo Tartaro of Rogers & Tartaro in the firm’s Business Litigation Blog
• DWI blood draw debate continues – Texas attorney Hunter Biederman in his Frisco DWI Lawyer & Attorney Blog
• Hang up and drive! Washington and California ban cell phone use while driving – Portland lawyer Dennis Westlind of Stoel Rives in the firm’s employment law blog, World of Work
• Ethical questions raised in brain mapping research – Las Vegas attorney Tim Titolo in his Brain & Spine Injury Law Blog
• Wal-Mart takes another hit – Des Moines lawyer Liz Overton of Sullivan & Ward in the firm’s Iowa Law Blog
• Concealing assets by conveying them – New York attorney Fred Abrams in his Asset Search Blog
• How will the court determine what parenting rights and responsibilities will be? – Manchester lawyer Kysa Crusco in her New Hampshire Family Law Blog