Top 10 in Law Blogs: LXBN April 18, 2013

Before jumping into today’s roundup, a little housekeeping: be sure to check out what’s trending on LXBN this week and, also, we have an LXBN TV episode on a bit of an oddball story involving Iowa’s all-pink football locker room. In the Top 10, Catlan McCurdy has an interesting post on the Apple Store design now being a registered trademark. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 166.

• Utah, New Mexico, Arkansas are Latest States to Restrict Access by Employers or Schools to Personal Social Media Accounts – Washington, DC lawyer Michael Beder of Covington & Burling on the firm’s blog, InsidePrivacy 
• DOL Labor Secretary Nominee Thomas Perez Addresses Senate Committee – Washington, DC lawyer Ilyse Schuman of Littler on the firm’s blog, Washington, DC Employment Law Update
• Cybersecurity Information Sharing Bill Passes House with Veto-Proof Margins – The blogging lawyers and attorneys at Hogan Lovells on their blog, Chronicle of Data Protection
• Cleantech Funding Sees Continued Support in Obama’s Proposed 2014 Budget – Buffalo attorney Elizabeth Holden of Hodgson Russ on the firm’s Clean and Green Law Blog
•  Asian legal market set to double by 2017 – Business development advisor John Grimley on his blog, International Business Development
• Apple Store Design Now a Registered Trademark – Catlan McCurdy of Winthrop & Weinstine on the firm’s DuetsBlog
• For Purveyors of Medical Marijuana, Siting Dispensaries Gets Easier in Massachusetts, and Federal Tax Concerns Begin to Settle – David A. Lewis and Timothy H. Watkins of Goulston & Storrs on the firm’s blog, Retail Law Advisor
• Data Breach Lawsuits – Revisiting the Risks – Miami lawyer Al Saikali of Shook, Hardy & Bacon on his Data Security Law Journal
• Obama Administration Threatens to Veto CISPA – from Hunton & Williams’s Privacy and Information Management Practice on their Privacy and Information Security Law Blog
• Supreme Court Holds That Alien Tort Statute Doesn’t Apply Extraterritorially – Andrew J. Pincus and Kevin Ranlett of Mayer Brown on the firm’s blog, Class Defense

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