For those of you who aren’t going to spend the rest of the night watching basketball (NBA League Pass free preview!), I have some blog posts for you. For sports fans, check them out during work tomorrow. In other news, yet another member of the LexBlog Network will be appearing on a national news show.
- Court Strikes Claims In US Steel/Steelworkers FLSA Class Action – New Jersey attorney Mark Tabakman of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Wage & Hour – Development & Highlights Blog
- Will the Federal Estate Tax Go Away in 2010? – Lancaster lawyer Matthew Grosh of Russell Krafft & Gruber in the firm’s Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog
- Safe food shouldn’t just be for the affluent – and they’re sorta clueless when it comes to food that makes them barf – Kansas State University professor Doug Powell in the International Food Safety Network’s BarfBlog
- Court of Civil Appeals States Standard Governing Review of Trial Court’s Ruling on Motion to Vacate a Default Judgment – Birmingham attorney Nikaa Jordan of Lightfoot, Franklin & White on the firm’s Alabama Appellate Watch
- Obama Administration Fails to Help Gay Couple Bypass Discriminatory Immigration Laws – Emory law student Gideon Alper on his Gay Couples Law Blog
- LEXIS, You Could Have Had Us Solos at Hello – Washington, D.C. lawyer Carolyn Elefant at her blog, My Shingle
- Should Lawyers Check Their Blackberries hourly? – Legal marketing specialist Tom Kane of Kane Consulting Inc. in his Legal Marketing Blog
- Update: Second Circuit Rejects Appeals in Case Where Former IBM Employee Intentionally Signed Non-Compete Agreement in Wrong Place – New York attorney David Clark of EpsteinBeckerGreen on the firm’s EBG Trade Secrets and Noncompete Blog
- Focus Increases on Obama’s Failure to Make Judicial and U.S. Attorney Nominations – Jackson lawyer Philip Thomas on his blog, Mississippi Litigation Review & Commentary
- Do the Breath Machines Always Flag Acetone and Diabetics? – Harrisburg, PA attorney Justin McShane on his Pennsylvania DUI Blog
Also worth noting: Personal injury lawyr Kay Van Wey, author of Pill Mill Monitor, is on Dan Rather Reports tonight as part of a story profiling Ken and Esther Scarborough of Beaumont, Texas, whose 25-year-old son, Christopher, died an accidental death caused from combined drug toxicity on September 23, 2007.