Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 8/6/08

It’s a good day in the legal blogosphere: on top of our more active clients continuing to add to the discussion, we also saw more than a few dormant (or at least less frequently updated) blogs return with noteworthy commentary. The posts below represent a blend of both.

• Dates for reimbursement under the LPTV Digital-to-Analog grant program revisited – Washington, D.C. attorney Brendan Holland of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Broadcast Law Blog
• Pension fund governance in the Lonestar State – Financial risk manager Susan Mangiero of Pension Governance LLC at her blog, Pension Risk Matters
• Delaware’s Judge Kevin Gross rules that, absent adequate protection, Whitehall’s asset sale may not include consigned jewels – Chicago lawyer Steve Jakubowski of The Coleman Law Firm in his Bankruptcy Litigation Blog
• Military tribunal convicts Salim Hamdan of providing material support to terrorism, acquits of conspiracy charge – The blogging constitutionalists at the American Constitution Society in their ACS Blog
• Taking environmental laws seriously: North Carolina v. EPA – Texas law professor Victor Flatt at the University of Houston Law Center Faculty Blog
• Franchise purchase requires personal honesty – Iowa attorney Rush Nigut of Brick Gentry at his blog, Rush on Business
  
• Car at 100 mph is a deadly weapon – Texas lawyer Jeff Rambin in his Tyler Appeals Blog
• Where have all the IP addresses gone? – Illinois attorney R. David Donoghue of DLA Piper in his Chicago IP Litigation Blog
• Housing market and mortgage woes create troubles for divorcing couples – Texas lawyer J. Shannon Cavers in her Houston Divorce & Family Law Attorney Blog
• Litigating against the IRS: taxpayer wins one, loses one – New York attorney Angel Tartaro of Rogers & Tartaro in the firm’s Business Litigation Blog

Also worth noting: California attorney Bill Abbott, founding partner of the Sacramento firm Abbott & Kindermann LLP, has been judged by his peers in the legal industry as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” for 2008. This is Bill’s fifth year in a row to receive such a distinction.