Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 4/17/08

Multiple discussions in the legal blogging community on this Thursday, including a couple – highlighted at the bottom of this post – detailing the foolishness of exposing personal data on YouTube. Coupled with eight more news updates we’ve handpicked, that makes today a busy day for legal news junkies.

• Make those arguments: don’t “incorporate by reference” – Walnut Creek attorney Kimberly Amick of Archer Norris in the firm’s California Appellate Law Blog
• Former CHRO regional manager – rebuffed by U.S. Supreme Court – files another lawsuit in U.S. District Court – Hartford lawyer Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Texas franchise tax: The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Meadwestvaco Corp. and the unitary business principle under the revisex Texas franchise tax – Dallas attorney Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
• Taxation of fuel provided to compression service operators at no cost – New Orleans lawyer Cheryl Kornick of Liskow & Lewis in the firm’s Energy Law Blog
• A climate change policy with no teeth – Texas law professor Victor B. Flatt in the University of Houston Law Center Faculty Blog
• Does anyone have the name of a good lawyer? – Kansas attorney William Statler of Statler Legal Services in his Death Care Compliance Law Blog
• Immigration agents arrest nearly 300 at Pilgrim’s Pride plants – Texas lawyer Bob Kraft of Kraft & Associates in his Immigration Law Answers Blog
• Botched executions to continue – Megan McCracken, consultant to the U.C. Berkeley School of Law’s Death Penalty Clinic, guest blogging at the American Constitution Society’s ACS Blog

Two of our bloggers were also chiming in on Tricia Walsh-Smith‘s poorly planned YouTube video, in which she provides all sorts of intimate marriage details online for the whole world to see:

• Details of a divorce in YouTube video – New York lawyer Daniel E. Clement in his blog, the New York Divorce Report
• The YouTube divorce video – Spartanburg attorney J. Benjamin Stevens of Stevens MacPhail in his South Carolina Family Law Blog