Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 5/15/08

Big news today out of California, where the state’s high court overturned a ban on same sex marriage in a move that has generated a lot of discussion from all sides of the political spectrum. Some of the posts featured in today’s update focus on that decision, while the rest deal with a broad range of other legal matters.

• California Supreme Court invalidates same-sex marriage ban – Yale Law School professor William N. Eskridge, Jr., guest blogging at the American Constitution Society’s ACS Blog
• Recent Daubert challenges to experts in environmental litigation – Baton Rouge attorneys Esteban Herrera and Richard McConnell of Kean Miller in the firm’s Louisiana Law Blog
• UM stacking and elimination of preapproval of auto insurance rates linked in new Georgia law – Georgia lawyer Ken Shigley in his Atlanta Injury Law & Civil Litigation Blog
• If you just started a law firm, hire a summer associate – Washington, D.C. attorney Carolyn Elefant at her blog, My Shingle
• Legislature postpones deadline to July 1, 2009 for implementation of new in-school suspension law – Milford lawyer Carolyn Mazanec Dugas of Berchem Moses & Devlin in the firm’s Connecticut Education Law Blog
• Houston attracting tech companies – PKF Texas director Greg Price at his blog, From Greg’s Head
• Newsflash: appellate judges read blogs – Austin attorney D. Todd Smith in his Texas Appellate Law Blog
• California ban on same-sex marriage struck down – Scottsdale lawyer Alexander D. Nirenstein of Nirenstein Ruotolo in the firm’s Arizona Divorce & Family Law Blog
• Ribstein and Bainbridge on shareholder activism – Wilmington attorney Francis G.X. Pileggi of Fox Rothschild in his Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog
• Eleventh Circuit holds that mail fraud conviction authorizes forfeiture – Georgia lawyer Tom Withers of Gillen, Withers & Lake in his Federal Criminal Defense Blog