Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 3/25/09

Anyone who’s written a blog for a significant amount of time has seen their fair share of detractors and probably received an angry email or fifty. Today, Bill Marler shares his experience with an angry emailer, whose rationale and relation to the story happens to be very interesting.

• It is good to be hated by some people. – Seattle attorney Bill Marler in his Marler Blog
• Blaming the messenger, and why not? – Patrick Maines, president of The Media Institute, at the Institute’s Media & Communications Policy Blog
• Business Court Rejects Bright Line Rule That A Subsidiary Cannot Conspire With Its Parent – Greensboro lawyer Mack Sperling of Brooks Pierce in his blog, the North Carolina Business Litigation Report
• The Involuntary Bankruptcy Solution to the Automaker (But Not AIG) Financial Distress Saga – Columbus attorney Teri Rasmussen of Plunkett Cooney in her Ohio Practical Business Law Blog
• Man Sentenced to 12 Months of Probation and Community Service for Illegal Access to Obama’s Passport Records – Boston lawyer Aaron Wright of Foley Hoag on the firm’s blog, Security, Privacy and The Law
• In Landmark Discrimination Case, Wal-Mart Challenges Class Certification – The blogging constitutionalists at the American Constitution Society in their ACS Blog
• On a ranch, predator control isn’t a tax exempt agricultural use of a helicopter – Dallas attorney Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
• How Many Falls Is Enough To Impose Responsibility On Nursing Home? – Illinois lawyer Jonathan Rosenfeld of Strellis & Field in the firm’s Nursing Homes Abuse Blog
• Charged With DUI In Idaho – “Just How Much Trouble Am I In?” (Part One) – Boise attorney Chuck Peterson on Peterson Law Offices’ Idaho Criminal Defense Blog
• Unusual Sports Related Injury Case Plaintiffs Failing to Win Damages – New York lawyer John Hochfelder on his New York Injury Cases Blog