Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 7/22/08

Some noteworthy updates – from recent court decisions to breaking legal news – worth highlighting today are featured below. Don’t forget that we always are looking to showcase noteworthy posts, so if you’ve got something you’re proud of, send it to rob [at] lexblog [dot] com.

• Meal and rest break requirements clarified in Brinker v. Hohnbaum – Los Angeles attorney Anthony Zaller of Van Vleck Turner & Zaller in the firm’s California Workforce Resource Blog
• Raw milk causing illness in East, Midwest and West – Seattle lawyer Bill Marler of Marler Clark in his Marler Blog
• What happens at a pre-trial hearing? – Minneapolis attorney Jason Brown of the Brown Law Offices in the firm’s Minnesota Criminal Defense Blog
• More bad news for New Jersey: Roche is moving its U.S. corporate headquarters to California – Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. in his Bio Job Blog
• Update: water law gaps leads to EPA dropping hundreds of Clean Water Act cases – Cleveland lawyer Joe Koncelik of Frantz Ward in his Ohio Environmental Law Blog
• EEOC releases new compliance manual section on religious discrimination – Hartford attorney Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Supreme Court holds that defense obligation in indemnity agreement is separate from indemnity obligation – Walnut Creek lawyer Kimberly Amick of Archer Norris in the firm’s California Appellate Law Blog
• When can an insurer be compelled to pay the full amount of the contemplated settlement of an underlying action? – California attorney David Gauntlett at his blog, Gauntlett on Insurance
• Dangerous truckers claim disability yet drive anyway – Dallas lawyer Angel Reyes of Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei in his Angel Reyes Blog
• California considering statewide nano regs – Ohio attorney Michael E. Heintz of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm’s Nanotechnology Law Report