Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 5/5/08

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