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From RICO to mad cow to horse emergencies (did anyone see what happened to Eight Belles during the Kentucky Derby?), today's batch covers the often diverse, always exciting multi-faceted legal blogosphere.

• IP & RICO claims collide in domain registration suit - Illinois attorney R. David Donoghue of DLA Piper in his Chicago IP Litigation Blog
• New mad cow disease precautions aimed at making beef supply safer - The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Regan Zambri & Long in the firm's DC Metro Area Personal Injury Law Blog
• Horses and MRSA - Maureen Anderson at the University of Guelph's Worms & Germs Blog
• Medical malpractice notice and certificate of merit bill sent to governor - Tennessee lawyer John Day of Day & Blair at his blog, Day on Torts
• Tropicana Entertainment case files in Delaware - The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Morris James in the firm's Delaware Business Bankruptcy Report
• Does a veterinarian have to treat your horse in an emergency? - Texas attorney Alison Rowe in her Equine Law Blog
• Greening your community association - Denver lawyer Suzanne M. Leff of Winzenburg Leff Purvis & Payne in the firm's Colorado Homeowners Association Law Blog
• NYC supermarkets packing up shop - Health blogger Gerald Pugliese at Dr. Joel Fuhrman's blog, Disease Proof
• Interaction between FMLA & ADA - don't get tripped up - Lancaster attorney Christina Hausner at Russell Krafft & Gruber in the firm's Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog
• Roche announces it will move 300 jobs from Indiana to Germany - Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. in his Bio Job Blog

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The week comes back in full swing today, and to accompany it we've got another fresh batch of legal news. As usual, the entire geographic and legal spectrums are both covered in today's post...which helps us kick off the first full week of May.

• Court refuses to apply marketability and minority discounts in valuing deceased partner's interest - New York lawyer Peter A. Mahler of Farrell Fritz in his New York Business Divorce Blog
• Notify insurers immediately about claims - Iowa attorney Rush Nigut of Brick Gentry at his blog, Rush on Business
• Legal analysis of the application of employment laws to Native American reservations - Hartford lawyer Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Landlords: beware of dog - Des Moines attorney Kyle Kruidenier of Sullivan & Ward in the firm's Iowa Law Blog
• Texas tax enforcement: anatomy of a Texas state tax collection case - Dallas lawyer Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
• Georgia man first to be executed following Baze v. Rees - Georgia attorney Anthony Lake of Gillen, Withers & Lake in the firm's Federal Criminal Defense Law Blog
• No doubt no reasonable suspicion required - laptops now fair game at the border - Los Angeles lawyer Tanya Forsheit of Proskauer Rose in the firm's Privacy Law Blog
• California's water supply potentially endangered by invalid biological opinion - Sacramento attorney Cori Badgley of Abbott & Kindermann in the firm's Land Use Law Blog
• Court sets protocol for forensic inspection of plaintiff's computer systems - The blogging lawyers & attorneys at K&L Gates in the firm's Electronic Discovery Law Blog
• Microsoft/Yahoo...no merger, what next? - PKF Texas director Greg Price at his blog, From Greg's Head

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Our normally calm Sunday update takes a different turn this week, beginning with Ken Shigley's firsthand account of pandemonium on the open road. And that's just the tip of the iceberg...while none of our other selections can match this life-or-death saga, they're all worth reading nonetheless.

• The tractor trailer with smoking tires in my rear view mirror - Georgia attorney Ken Shigley in his Atlanta Injury Law & Civil Litigation Blog
• The incredible shrinking financial advisor - Jerry Kalish at National Benefit Services, Inc. in his Retirement Plan Blog
• Chinese fish imports raise concerns - Seattle lawyer Bill Marler of Marler Clark in his Marler Blog
• Dismissed case and evidence of innocence still counts as a "brush with the law" - Texas attorney Jamie Spencer in his Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog
• Check the CFO's pay packet, too - Ohio lawyer Kevin LaCroix of OakBridge Insurance Services in his blog, The D & O Diary

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Happy Saturday, folks. Five posts today - all unique, in that none of our selections this time around have been featured prominently in LexBlogosphere updates before...despite that we've been doing these updates for nearly a year.

• Corps faces trial in MRGO suit - Baton Rouge attorney Erich Rapp of Kean Miller in his Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Blog
• Short sales: when proceeds are insufficient to pay off the mortgage - Kansas City lawyer Mark Wortman in his Missouri Divorce & Family Law Blog
• If it sounds suspicious, it is probably unethical - Washington, D.C. attorney Carolyn Elefant at her blog, My Shingle
• A Florida patent attorney's suit of armor: integrity - Ft. Lauderdale lawyer John Rizvi of Gold & Rizvi PA in his Florida Intellectual Property Law Blog
• Shortage of mortgage funds - Dublin-based solicitor Paul McNally in his Ireland Property Law Blog

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We won't be having an update of live blogs this week, but for those RSS hounds still checking their newsfeed readers late Friday afternoon, we do have another batch of legal news...which was, as usual, selected purely for your enjoyment.

• Halverson seeks to avoid standing for election - Las Vegas attorney Tami Cowden of Kummer Kaempfer at her blog, Appealing in Nevada
• A conversation with Michael Dell - PKF Texas director Greg Price at his blog, From Greg's Head
• FCC declares 700 club and TMZ are exempt from equal time - with some issues left unaddressed - Washington, D.C. attorney David Oxenford of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm's Broadcast Law Blog
• Caps on damages found to be unconstitutional - Spartanburg lawyer Ray Mullman of Poliakoff & Associates in the firm's South Carolina Nursing Home Blog
• Can an employer contractually limit an employee's time to file claims? - Ohio attorney Jamie LaPlante of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm's Employer Law Report
• Trailer Lawyers demand sanctions for "scurrilous" allegations relating to Rigsby Trailer Summit - Portland lawyer David Rossmiller of Dunn Carney in the firm's Insurance Coverage Law Blog
• Central United class action information - Atlanta attorney Mark Zamora at the Trial Lawyer Resource Center
• 1929 redux? - Texas lawyer Sean McCaffity of Rochelle, Hutcheson & McCullough in the firm's blog Property of the Estate
• Euthanasia battle for pets heats up - Florida attorney Danny Meek at his Pet Trust Law Blog
• Commercial landlords: four important questions to ask when a tenant files for bankruptcy - Lawrenceville lawyer Thomas S. Onder of Stark & Stark in the firm's New Jersey Law Blog
  

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Today begins another month...as well as May Day celebrations, immigration protests and the suicide of convicted "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey. It also brings us our usual batch of news updates, which today manages to include a few less-familiar faces.

• Preliminary injunction affirmed based on noncompete agreement but not trade secrets - Little Rock attorney Kevin Lemley of the Allen Law Firm in their Arkansas Business Litigation Blog
• Tom Peters quotes - EDGE International's Rob Millard at his blog, The Adventure of Strategy
• Your family's financial plan: are you prepared in case of a family catastrophe? (part three) - Spartanburg lawyer J. Benjamin Stevens of Stevens MacPhail in his South Carolina Family Law Blog
• Using multimedia at trial - Brian White, guest blogging at David Swanner's South Carolina Trial Law Blog
• What customers want from their software vendors - Chicago attorney Sam Conforti in his Software Licensing & Master Service Agreements Blog
• Utah DUI substance abuse classes - Ogden lawyer Glen Neeley at his Utah DUI Trial Lawyer Blog
• An interview with Troy Conrad on the future of Act 2 - Warrington attorney Joel Bolstein of Fox Rothschild in the firm's Pennsylvania Brownfields & Environmental Law Blog
• SCOTUS rejects hospital's appeal of med mal verdict - Charleston lawyer Jeffrey Mehalic in his West Virginia Business Litigation Blog
• Why structural conflicts of interest, standing alone, are irrelevant - Massachusetts attorney Stephen D. Rosenberg of The McCormack Firm in his Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
• Computer forensics & an asset search - New York lawyer Fred Abrams in his Asset Search Blog

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Here we are, at the doorstep of another month with another batch of legal updates. It's the usual game plan this afternoon: ten posts, from Austin to Miami and back again, covering diverse issues from across the legal spectrum.

• Three steps for improving your legal writing - Austin attorney D. Todd Smith in his Texas Appellate Law Blog
• Hunt vs. Hunt: the fight inside Dallas' wealthiest families - Miami lawyer Juan Antunez of Stokes McMillan Maracini & Antunez in his Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
• Courthouse referendum defeated: what's next? - Iowa attorney Rush Nigut of Brick Gentry in his blog, Rush on Business
• How does title impact property division in a Minnesota divorce? - Anoka lawyer Jason C. Brown of the Brown Law Offices in their Minnesota Divorce & Family Law Blog
• Who cares what judges think? - Greensboro attorney Mack Sperling of Brooks Pierce in his blog, the North Carolina Business Litigation Report
• Big pharma and biotech assail U.S. patent laws - Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. in his Bio Job Blog
• Greek island seeks to bar gay women from using the term "lesbian" - Attorney-mediatory Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog
• Is free will simply an illusion? Disturbing new research into the brain suggests that man has no control over his own destiny - Las Vegas lawyer Tim Titolo in his Brain & Spine Injury Law Blog
• More info on energy bill - Colorado attorney Loura K. Sanchez of HindmanSanchez in the firm's blog, HOA Legi-Slate
• Retracting false accusations - Texas lawyer Jamie Spencer in his Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog

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Today's update comes significantly later in the afternoon than usual, which means that there are a few - but not too many - new faces in the mix. From equines to energy religious express, the discussion continues full steam ahead.

• Patent Office will accept new application format - Washington, D.C. attorney Brian Wm. Higgins of Blank Rome in his Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog
• College expenses: who pays? - New Jersey lawyer Jennifer Weisberg Millner of Fox Rothschild in the firm's NJ Family Legal Blog
• What if potential buyer does not return horse after trial period? - Texas attorney Alison Rowe in her Equine Law Blog
• Hearing religious expression in the public schools - Edward Correia, adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law at American University, guest blogging at the American Constitution Society's ACSBlog
• One firm that really gets it - Legal marketing expert Tom Kane of Kane Consulting Inc. in his Legal Marketing Blog
• FDA rejects Merck's new cholesterol medication - Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. in his Bio Job Blog
• But why are Houstonians so easily shocked? - Texas attorney Jamie Spencer in his Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog
• GAO testifies before Senate Subcommittee on the accuracy of data concerning federally funded EHS research - Washington, D.C. lawyer Lynn Bergeson of Bergeson & Campbell in the firm's Nanotechnology Law Blog
• Looks like it was Chipotle customers making other customers sick with Hepatitis A - The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Marler Clark in the firm's Hepatitis Blog
• Wing energy part 6 - tax abatement issues - Texas attorney Jack Howell of Sprouse Shrader Smith in the firm's Tax Law and Business Organization Strategy Domain

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It's Monday, and we're here to offer up ten blog posts - a random sample of the current state of the legal blogosphere, with each article covering a different realm of the law. When you're presented with this much discussion, readers everywhere are bound to find something they'd want to subscribe to.

• Judicial dissolution of the unprofitable LLC - New York attorney Peter A. Mahler of Farrell Fritz in his New York Business Divorce Blog
• Positive changes for F-1 students with "STEM" degrees - Texas lawyer Bob Kraft of Kraft & Associates in his Immigration Law Answers Blog
• Insurance companies practice deny & delay tactics - Marketing director Grace Kanoy at the Deuterman Law Group in their North Carolina Workers' Compensation Law Blog
  
• Texas companies top Fortune 500 list - PKF Texas director Greg Price at his blog, From Greg's Head
• Ability grouping: issues and concerns? - Pennsylvania attorney Karl Romberger of Fox Rothschild in the firm's Education Law Blog
• North Carolina slips in U.S. Chamber's ranking of state court systems for business - Greensboro lawyer Mack Sperling of Brooks Pierce in his blog, the North Carolina Business Litigation Report
• JD Supra contributors featured in the Sunday New York Times - Aviva Cuyler of JD Supra in the legal resource site's companion blog, JD Scoop
• Kudos to Freeport - Texas lawyer Hunter Biederman in his Frisco DWI Lawyer & Attorney Blog
• Wearing the bulls-eye: the compliance officer as line supervisor - Minneapolis attorney Jon Harris of Lindquist & Vennum in the firm's OverReg'd Corporate Securities Regulation & Litigation Resource Blog
• Update on East Coast airspace redesign litigation - Costa Mesa lawyer Steven Taber of Chevalier, Allen & Lichman in the firm's Aviation & Airport Development Law Blog

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