Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 10/22/08

As part of the LexBlogosphere roundup, I try to highlight posts that tie-in current events, even if it doesn’t include recent litigation. Today, I was going feature anything referencing the World Series. Well, BarfBlog was the only blog to do so. Go Rays.

• Another Huge U.S. Bank Making More “Mistakes” – The editor at Total Bankruptcy in their Bankruptcy Blog
• Top Four Reasons Most Civil Rights Cases Can’t Find A Lawyer – Boise attorney Chuck Peterson on Peterson Law Offices’ Idaho Criminal Defense Blog
• Breaking News: CA Supreme Court Grants Review In Brinker v. Superior Court – Los Angeles lawyer Anthony Zaller of Van Vleck Turner & Zaller in the firm’s California Workforce Resource Blog
• Getting Paid For Waiting For Ice To Melt? Nice Work If You Can Get It – New Jersey attorney Mark Tabakman of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Wage & Hour – Development & Highlights Blog
• Tampa Bay is in the World Series cause they let fans bring their own food to the ballpark – Kansas State University professor Doug Powell in the International Food Safety Network’s BarfBlog
• Would You Hire This Person To Be President? A Look at the “Resumes” of Each Candidate – Hartford lawyer Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Fourteen Million Reasons Not to Misclassify Employees as Independent Contractors – Portland attorney Dennis Westlind of Stoel Rives in the firm’s World of Work Blog
• Cracking down on contraband in prisons – Waco lawyer Walter Reaves in his Texas Criminal Law Blog
• New Franchise Disclosure Laws – New Jersey attorney Richard DeLuca of Stark & Stark on the firm’s New Jersey Law Blog
• How Much Freedom Should Assisted Living Facilities Give The Mentally Disabled? – Illinois lawyer Jonathan Rosenfeld of Strellis & Field in his Chicago Nursing Home Lawyer Blog