Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 5/13/08

Congratulations are in order today for Gerald Pugliese at Disease Proof, who got some great press coverage in Sally Squires’ health column from today’s Washington Post. Commentary from Gerald and 9 other bloggers from around the country are included in today’s batch of updates.

• More about COBRA: what is “gross misconduct”? – New York attorney Keith R. McMurdy of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Employee Benefits Legal Blog
• EPA unified agenda includes item on Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program – Washington, D.C. lawyer Lynn Bergeson of Bergeson & Campbell in the firm’s Nanotechnology Law Blog
• Why we need an innocence commission – Waco attorney Walter Reaves in his Texas Criminal Law Blog
• DiseaseProof invades The Washington Post – Health blogger Gerald Pugliese at Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s blog, DiseaseProof
• Governor of Montana successfully asserts sovereign immunity to takings claim – Sacramento lawyer Cori Badgley of Abbott & Kindermann in the firm’s Land Use Law Blog
• New CFP standards effective July 1 – Minneapolis attorney David Flower of Lindquist & Vennum in the firm’s OverReg’d Corporate Securities Regulation & LItigation Resource Blog
• Circuit Court could not reconsider denied post-judgment motions; appeal from later order was untimely – Birmingham lawyer Craig N. Rosler of Lightfoot Franklin White in the firm’s Alabama Appellate Watch Blog
• Texas – right to arbitrate waived without proof of prejudice to opposing party – Houston attorney Andrew Wooley of Liskow & Lewis in the firm’s Energy Law Blog
• The statute of limitations in veterinary malpractice actions – Texas lawyer Alison Rowe in her Equine Law Blog
• Oklahoma medical malpractice new filing requirement vetoed – Maryland attorney Ron Miller of Miller & Zois at the Trial Lawyer Resource Center