Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 10/16/08

Today, we have two blogs making their first showing in the daily LexBlogsphere roundup: The Newsroom Law Blog and Toxic Tort Litigation Blog, both of which launched last week. The Newsroom Law Blog actually had two great posts but I could only pick one. Well done guys.

• Ohio Challenges Court Ruling On Voter Registrations – The blogging constitutionalists at the American Constitution Society in their ACS Blog
• Wachovia to Pay $178 Million to Settle RICO Class Action – Idaho attorney Thomas G. Walker of Coscho Humphrey in his RICO Law Blog
• Causation in Court: Working Principles for Toxic Tort Cases – Los Angeles lawyer Lisa Baird of Reed Smith in the firm’s Life Sciences Legal Update
• Appellate courts do not have jurisdiction over claims for which no appeal has been filed – Birmingham attorney Ivan B. Cooper of Lightfoot Franklin White in the firm’s Alabama Appellate Watch Blog
• A New Era For Private Cost Recovery Litigation? – New York lawyer William Ruskin of EpsteinBeckerGreen on the firm’s Toxic Tort Litigation Blog
• Does the Constitution (Still) Protect the Identity of a Confidential Source? – Charles Coble of Brooks Pierce on the firm’s Newsroom Media Law Blog
• Mental Health Parity Provisions of the Bailout Law – Cleveland lawyer Ann Caresane of Porter Wright on the firm’s Employer Law Report
• What We Think We Know Can Hurt Our Negotiating Position – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon in The IP ADR Blog
• Ninth Circuit Upholds San Francisco Health Care Ordinance – Portland lawyer Dennis Westlind of Stoel Rives in the firm’s World of Work Blog
• Don’t Be a Marketing Sinner – Legal marketing specialist Tom Kane of Kane Consulting Inc. in his Legal Marketing Blog