Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 5/12/08

We start this week as we have so many others in the past: with a batch of legal news to satisfy your certain cravings. There’s some great discussion taking place this morning, and some of it is highlighted in the ten posts below.

• New enforcement data added to HHS’ web site on HIPAA privacy compliance & enforcement – New Jersey attorney Helen Oscislawski of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s HIPAA Health Law Blog
• Divorce and the housing market in New Hampshire – Manchester lawyer Kysa Crusco in her New Hampshire Family Law Blog
• Iowa enacts 43rd state breach notification law – Los Angeles attorney Tanya Forsheit of Proskauer Rose in the firm’s Privacy Law Blog
• Writing the better contract from Anita Campbell – part II – Iowa lawyer Rush Nigut of Brick Gentry in his blog, Rush on Business
• Curtailing abuses to the “reasonable belief” exclusion in the Texas Auto Policy – Texas attorney Chris Martin of Martin, Disiere, Jefferson, & Wisdom at the National Insurance Law Forum
• State officials contemplate big changes in California livin’ – San Francisco journalist Dennis Pfaff, writing in Thelen’s Climate Law Update
• Appellate Court holds network director for start-up company was properly classified as exempt employee – Los Angeles lawyer Anthony Zaller of Van Vleck Turner & Zaller in the firm’s California Labor & Employment Defense Blog
• Recent decision emphasizes need to include reasons for settlement in workers’ compensation settlement agreements – Ohio attorney Rob Statler of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm’s Employer Law Report
• Feds reportedly looking to RICO for additional Scruggs charges – Georgia lawyer Tom Withers of Gillen Withers & Lake in his Federal Criminal Defense Blog
• Harris v. Fish & Richardson update: Patent Troll Tracker returning – Illinois attorney R. David Donoghue of DLA Piper in his Chicago IP Litigation Blog