Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 7/23/08

We’re keeping real busy here at LexBlog, but it’s time now to take a break from the rush to present our readers with another roundup of legal news. The (non law-related) Corvette Blog makes its first appearance in quite a while, as do infrequent LexMonitor guests David Gabay and Keith McMurdy.

• Trial court erred by not setting aside default where party missed hearing due to hospitalization – Birmingham attorney Ivan B. Cooper of Lightfoot Franklin White in the firm’s Alabama Appellate Watch Blog
• Novak hits pedestrian with his Corvette – Ryan Esler at George Matick Chevrolet in the Detroit auto dealership’s Corvette Blog
• HEART Act protects military personnel – New York lawyer Keith R. McMurdy of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Employee Benefits Legal Blog
• The wages of bad faith patent litigation – the lawyers are liable – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog
  
• New York state law permits family court orders of protection for persons in intimate relationships – Holbrook lawyer David A. Gabay in his New York Divorce Law Blog
• Murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals living with the elderly – Illinois attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld of Strellis & Field in the firm’s Chicago Nursing Home Lawyer Blog
• Offering offshore asset protection to tax cheats – New York lawyer Fred Abrams in his Asset Search Blog
• Scruggs won’t serve time in Panhandle prison due to fears he will air mail himself out of the country – Portland attorney David Rossmiller of Dunn Carney in the firm’s Insurance Coverage Law Blog
• The Playstation coverage wars: impaired coverage? – Boston lawyer Mike Aylward of Morrison & Mahoney at the National Insurance Law Forum
• Investigating employee misconduct based on electronic evidence may be limited by the weakness of an employer’s policies – Lancaster attorney Michael Moore of McNees Wallace & Nurick in the firm’s Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog