Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 3/26/08

It’s the middle of the week, and content continues to flow. Food safety, H-1B visas, home sales and Social Security are just some of the legal issues we’re highlighting in today’s LexBlogosphere update…and that’s just from posts authored before 11 a.m.

• Hasen: an election law double standard – The blogging constitutionalists at the American Constitution Society in their ACS Blog
• Hiring more judges not enough to end Social Security disability backlog – Greensboro attorney Benjamin Burnside of The Deuterman Law Group in the firm’s North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Law Blog
• Seller motivation: why sell now? – New York real estate broker Douglas Heddings in his blog, True Gotham
• Washington Post proposes temporary solution to H-1B crisis – Texas lawyer Bob Kraft of Kraft & Associates in his Immigration Law Answers Blog
• Marriage by proxy – Des Moines attorney Jennifer Jaskolka-Brown of Sullivan & Ward in the firm’s Iowa Law Blog
• Nursing home relief act pulled by industry after release of tort report – Tennessee lawyer John Day of Day & Blair in his blog, Day on Torts
• Why do some lawyers worry so much about how to enforce their fee liens? – Georgia attorney Ken Shigley of Shigley Law Firm in his Atlanta Injury Law & Civil Litigation Blog
• Trademark licenses in bankruptcy: new developments in the N.C.P. Marketing case – San Francisco lawyer Bob Eisenbach of Cooley Godward at the firm’s In The (Red) Business Bankruptcy Blog
• CDC believes that risks associated with leafy greens have been on the rise – Seattle attorney Ken Odza of Stoel Rives in the firm’s Food Liability Law Blog
• Canada’s food not the sfaest in the world: prof – Kansas State University professor Doug Powell in the International Food Safety Network’s BarfBlog

Also worth noting: Austin attorney D. Todd Smith, author of the recently-launched Texas Appellate Law Blog, offered up an interesting piece yesterday on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Hall Street Associates LLC v. Mattel Inc.