Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 7/10/08

Not much to be said about today’s highlighted posts: as usual, they represent a wide range of practice areas from around the geographic and legal spectrum, offering new insights on issues and laws that many of us neglect to look at from an analytical standpoint.

• Hot docs: two cases stemming from government surveillance efforts – Aviva Cuyler at JD Supra in the legal resource site’s accompanying blog, JD Scoop
• No surprise: Foxwoods declines to bargain with UAW; formal appeal to follow, later this summer – Hartford attorney Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Yet another confederate flag case – Pennsylvania lawyer Karl A. Romberger of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Education Law Blog
• DOT tightens drug testing regulations; loss of privacy attributed to cheaters – Washington, D.C. attorney Nancy N. Delogu of Littler Mendelson in the firm’s Workplace Privacy Counsel Blog
• Third time’s a charm for National Geographic in copyright suit – New York lawyer Edward A. Pisacreta of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner in the firm’s Technology Law Update
• Cornell University study on aggression in nursing homes – Spartanburg attorney Ray Mullman of Poliakoff & Associates in the firm’s South Carolina Nursing Home Blog
• UK foreign companies and EU tax legislation – Spanish tax barrister Fernando Del Canto at his blog, Tax Precision
• A settlement is a settlement, not an adjudication of fraud for D&O policy exclusion purposes – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at MorrisJames in the firm’s Delaware Business Litigation Report
• Time for a “good faith” defense to corporate liability for criminal acts or omissions of agents – Georgia lawyer Anthony Lake of Gillen, Withers & Lake in the firm’s Federal Criminal Defense Blog
• Non-competes: pigs get fed, but hogs get slaughtered – Pennsylvania attorney Christina Hausner of Russell, Krafft & Gruber in the firm’s Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog