Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : June 16, 2011

Due to a late-afternoon meeting and then a team LexBlog softball game (unfortunately, we got smoked), this is coming to you much later than normal. Because we’re so late, we’re just going to jump right into the day’s bests. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 151.

• Former Employee Gets a Free Pass for Deleting Evidence in Employment Dispute – West Bloomfield lawyer Jason Shinn of E-Business Counsel on his blog, Michigan Employment Law Advisor
• Days that Make Being an Eminent Domain Attorney Exciting: More Redevelopment Developments – Irvine attorney Rick Rayl of Nossaman on the firm’s California Eminent Domain Report
• EPA’s Delay Tactic Avoids Real Change – Cleveland lawyer Joe Koncelik of Frantz Ward in his Ohio Environmental Law Blog
• Live Coverage from Budapest: Day One of the Hungarian International Data Protection Conference – from Hunton & Williams’s Privacy and Information Management Practice on their Privacy and Information Security Law Blog
• "Sole-y" Louboutin’s: Christian Louboutin sues Yves Saint Laurent Over Use of Red Soles – Philadelphia attorney Scott Schwartz of Cozen O’Connor on the firm’s blog, Trademark Geek
• SCOTUS: Federal Court That Denied Class Certification Was Without Authority to Enjoin Absent Class Member From Pursuing State Court Class Action – New York lawyer Russell Jackson on his blog Consumer Class Actions & Mass Torts
• Insurers See Only What They Want To See – New York attorney Michael Quiat of Uscher, Quiat, Uscher & Russo on his blog, Quiat on Claims
• HOAs Going the Way of the Dodo? Not Likely – Denver, CO lawyer Molly Foley-Healey of Winzenburg, Leff, Purvis & Payne on the firm’s Colorado Homeowners Association Law Blog
• Are You or Your Subcontractors Using Illegal Immigrant Labor on Your Construction Projects? – Construction attorney Matt DeVries of the Best Practices Construction Law Blog
• Underage Facebook Users Give a Whole New Meaning to ‘Social’ Media – David Kaufer of TERIS on the firm’s Sophisticated Litigation Support Blog