Best in Law Blogs : LexBlog Network : October 8, 2009

As always, we have several interesting posts today, but more specifically, we have several interesting cases. Tami Cowden has insight on the reversal of a 2007 conviction of a Nevada women for the murder of her toddler in 1974, Ellen Simon has analysis on a case involving a female police officer and denial of promotion while Russell Jackson has commentary on the tossing of a class action suit attempting to blame high fructose corn syrup for the so-called “obesity epidemic.”

• Court Denies Request for Adverse Inference Absent Demonstration that Lost Emails were Favorable to Plaintiff – The blogging lawyers and attorneys at K&L gates on the firm’s blog, Electronic Discovery Law
• Georgia Tort Reform Challenged in State Supreme Court – Atlanta attorney Lisa Siegel of Katz, Stepp & Miller on their Georgia Injury Law Blog
• Conviction for homicide 35 years ago reversed – Las Vegas lawyer Tami Cowden of Kummer Kaempfer at her blog, Appealing in Nevada
• Vernor v. Autodesk and the First Sale Doctrine: The District Court Has Nothing Further to Add, Judgment for Reseller – Foggy with High Visibility – New York attorney Jeff Neuburger of Proskauer Rose in the firm’s New Media & Technology Law Blog
• Can Specific Government Implementation of Green Building Laws Violate Due Process? – Chicago lawyer Ashley Brandt of Foran Glennon Palandech & Ponzi on the firm’s Illinois Construction Law Blog
• Incident of the Week: Ever-Growing Breach Involving Passwords for Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink and Comcast – Boston attorney Jeff Bone of Foley Hoag on the firm’s blog, Security, Privacy and The Law
• Parental Rights of Non-Legal Parent Upheld by Montana Supreme Court – Emory law student Gideon Alper on his Gay Couples Law Blog
• General Mills Wins Motion to Dismiss High Fructose Corn Syrup Class Action – New York lawyer Russell Jackson of Skadden on his blog, Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts
• When you need to, apologize. With feeling! – Chicago attorney Patrick J. Lamb of Valorem Law Group at his blog, In Search of Perfect Client Service
• Important Decision From Sixth Circuit in Discriminatory Failure to Promote Case – Ohio and Arizona lawyer Ellen Simon on her blog, Employee Rights Post