Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 2/23/09
February 23, 2009
A number of today’s best posts have analysis on how the recently signed Stimulus Bill affects areas of the law. We have insight on the audit and oversight provisions, the impact on employment law and just how effective certain “green” measures will be.
- Why Florida Jurors Are Rarely Allowed to Hear Evidence of Previous False Accusations – Florida attorney Ronald Chapman on his West Palm Beach Criminal Lawyer Blog
- More on State Efforts to Ban Card Check Organizing – The blogging lawyers and attorneys at McKenna Long & Aldridge on the firm’s EFCA Report
- Are you really an independent contractor? – Chicago lawyer Mark Helfland on his Illinois Workers’ Compensation Law Blog
- Stimulation Has Its Price – The Audit and Oversight Provisions of The 2009 Stimulus Bill Are Unlike Anything Most Funding Recipients Have Ever Seen – Washington, DC attorneys John W. Chierichella and David S. Gallacher of Sheppard Mullin on the firm’s Real Estate and Construction Law Blog
- When judge becomes defendant – Waco lawyer Walter Reaves in his Texas Criminal Law Blog
- Oregon as Center of Green Energy? – Portland attorneys Rick Glick and David Blasher of Davis Wright Tremaine on the blog for the American College of Environmental Lawyers
- Big Trouble in the Big Easy – Milwaukee lawyer Monika Harris of Quarles & Brady on the firm’s blog, E-Discovery Bytes
- What’s REALLY in the Economic Stimulus Bill for Employers – A Recap – Hartford attorney Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Green New Deal? Green Trinkets and Empty Packages in the Stimulus Bill – Cleveland lawyer Joe Koncelik of Frantz Ward in his Ohio Environmental Law Blog
- Court Rules That The Federal Meat Inspection Act Preempts Inconsistent State Law – Milwaukee attorney Shawn Stevens of Gass Weber Mulins on the firm’s blog, Defending Food Safety
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