Legal News : LexBlogosphere:9/25/08

Summer is still putting up a fight out in Missoula but as we roll into fall people get back to business and the posts keep flowing in. The increase in great posts continued today. No commonalities but it’s worth noting that the President has signed ADA Amendments Act of 2008, a topic that’s been mentioned many times in the round-up of the LexBlogosphere.

• Today’s Nevada Supreme Court Opinions (9/25/08) – Las Vegas attorney Tami Cowden of Kummer Kaempfer at her blog, Appealing in Nevada
• New Study On Employment Discrimination Cases Subject of Judiciary Committee Hearing – The blogging constitutionalists at the American Constitution Society in their ACS Blog
• $5.5 Million Settlement Reached in Birth Injury Case – New Hampshire lawyer David Austin of Burke & Eisner in the firm’s Cerebral Palsy Law Blog
• BREAKING NEWS: President Signs ADA Amendments Act of 2008; Act Becomes Effective January 1, 2009 – Hartford attorney Daniel A. Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Eastern District of Michigan Bankruptcy Court Joins Delaware In Holding That 502(d) Does Not Apply to Administrative Expenses Under Section 503(b)(9) – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at MorrisJames in the firm’s Delaware Business Litigation Report
• FAA Proposes to Have Airports Include a List of Based Aircraft On All AIP Grant Applications – Costa Mesa lawyer Steven Taber of Chevalier, Allen & Lichman in the firm’s Aviation & Airport Development Law Blog
• Risk Management Adventures – Financial risk manager Susan Mangiero of Pension Governance in her blog, Pension Risk Matters
• Why Union Organizers come Knocking on an Employee’s Door and Why the Employee Free Choice Act will increase those “House Calls” – Lancaster attorney Michael Moore of McNees Wallace & Nurick in the firm’s Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
• Whistle-Blower Protection in Bailout Legislation – Juliet Sallette at LaBovick & LaBovick in the firm’s Whistleblower Law Blog
• Senate Panel Holds Hearing on DTC Advertising of Medical Devices – Philadelphia lawyer Sean Wajert of Dechert LLP in his Mass Tort Defense Blog

Also worth noting: Today, legal marketing expert Larry Bodine of the LawMarketing Blog began a series of posts profiling the five 2008 Rainmaker of the Year Award winners. Up first: H. Patrick Callahan.