Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 6/26/08

Maybe it’s just due to the magnitude of recent decisions from the Supreme Court, but there’s a lot of great content coming out of our corner  of the legal blogosphere today: plenty of SCOTUS coverage, David Rossmiller offering insights in the final hours before Dickie Scruggs’ sentencing, and lots more excitement are all below.

• Insider offers explanation on Shigella outbreak among New York’s Jewish communities – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Marler Clark in the firm’s Shigella Blog
• Supreme Court should have deferred to D.C.’s legislature – Linda Singer, former Washington D.C. attorney general guest blogging at the American Constitution Society’s ACS Blog
• The style of your divorce lawyer: the lamb, the pit bull, the fox – Mobile attorney Michael Sherman in his Alabama Family Law Blog
• SCOTUS: we don’t need no stinkin’ standard of review – Philadelphia lawyer Maxwell Kennerly of The Beasley Firm at his blog, Litigation & Trial
• PEN and GMA review regulatory process for nanomaterials in food packaging – Washington, D.C. attorney Lynn L. Bergeson of Bergeson & Campbell in the firm’s Nanotechnology Law Blog
• Scruggs Nation: June 26, the pre-sentencing – Portland lawyer David Rossmiller of Dunn Carney in the firm’s Insurance Coverage Law Blog
• Supreme Court reduces punitive damages award in Exxon Valdez case – Philadelphia attorney Sean Wajert of Dechert LLP in his Mass Tort Defense Blog
• Now is the time for employers to gear up for the Employee Free Choice Act – Harrisburg lawyer Bruce D. Bagley of McNees Wallace & Nurick in the firm’s Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
• The Supreme Court upholds the Sixth Circuit in ERISA conflict of interest case – Ohio attorney Jenni Edwards of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm’s Employer Law Report
• Greetings from Legal Tech West – New York headhunter David Cowen of The Cowen Group at his blog, Opportunity Knocks