Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 7/3/08

Today’s post leads us into the long weekend, which should come as a welcome relief to many of the blogging attorneys who haven’t had a break from the legal world since Memorial Day. But before you head out of town for the Fourth, why not take a glimpse at the ten fine posts we’ve collected below?

• Getting prior IME reports – Las Vegas attorney Tim Titolo in his Brain & Spine Injury Law Blog
• Fireworks more dangerous for children than adults – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Regan Zambri & Long in the firm’s DC Metro Area Personal Injury Law Blog
• Texas franchise tax: updates since June 5th to the Comptroller’s Frequently Asked Questions web page regarding the revised franchise tax – part 2 – Dallas lawyer Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
• DOJ backlog and ex DOJ honors applicant makes waves – Juliet Sallette at LaBovick & LaBovick in the firm’s Whistleblower Law Blog
• A client’s conduct may have far reaching implications – New Jersey attorney Sandra C. Fava of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s NJ Family Legal Blog
• The Supreme Court strands beneficiaries of retirement and health benefits – Harper Jean Tobin & Simon Lazarus, attorneys with the National Senior Citizens Law Center, guest blogging at the American Constitution Society’s ACS Blog
• Restraint of trade issue #1: restricting who can sell or provide preneed – Kansas attorney William Statler in his Death Care Compliance Law Blog
• Pennsylvania Superior Court: no need to afford contractor opportunity to cure breach – Philadelphia lawyer Max Kennerly of The Beasley Firm in his blog, Litigation + Trial
• Chamber of Commerce spends millions trying to take away citizen’s right to a jury trial – Spartanburg attorney Ray Mullman of Poliakoff & Associates in the firm’s South Carolina Nursing Home Blog
• FCC begins investigation of embedded advertising and sponsorship identification – Washington, D.C. lawyer David Oxenford of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Broadcast Law Blog