Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 2/12/08

A bounty of news worth highlighting: mad cow disease, global warming and transsexual bias are just a few of the hot issues being discussed in the blogosphere today.

• Trial court rules CEQA did not require global warming analysis – Sacramento attorney Leslie Z. Walker of Abbott & Kindermann in the firm’s Land Use Law Blog
• Is Schafer “swiftboating” on Chino slaughterhouse? – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Marler Clark in the firm’s Mad Cow Blog
• Privacy coalition requests FTC to probe Ask.com; in response, Ask.com and its allies cry foul – Seattle lawyer Hozaifa Cassubhai of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Privacy and Security Law Blog
• Court deems ex-employer’s lawsuit a “SLAPP” against ex-employee – Orange County attorney Candice Boyd of Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger in the firm’s California Labor & Employment Law Blog
• Should doctors insist that their patients arbitrate? Should patients agree? – New Jersey lawyer Richard J. Webb of Healthcare Neutral in his Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog
• Future epidemic of abuse and neglect – Spartanburg attorney Ray Mullman of Poliakoff & Associates in the firm’s South Carolina Nursing Home Blog
• Legislative preview: is transsexual bias law on the horizon? – Hartford lawyer Daniel A. Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• New York condominiums sue town over municipal services – Lawrenceville attorney Jonathan Katz of Stark & Stark in the firm’s New Jersey Law Blog
• Scruggs Nation, February 12: the sweet potatoes edition – Portland lawyer David Rossmiller of Dunn Carney in the firm’s Insurance Coverage Law Blog
• Outsourcing IP work to India? Maybe it’s time for a career change – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog