Buggy Whips, Free Speech, Horse Pollution, Mortgage Costs. Must be…

… Thursday’s JD Supra Buzz. Here’s what we learned in law today:

Are newspapers destined to go the way of the buggy whip? (Bloomberg Law) 

Is it illegal to obtain a company credit card for your own personal use? Well, that depends… (The Kaiser Law Firm) 

Religious expression in the California workplace gets a boost (Proskauer) 

One answer to computer hacking losses: theft insurance (Miller Canfield) 

Teacher forced to resign for exercising free speech wins new trial (Franczek Radelet) 

Fifth time’s a charm? Music piracy defendant plans to appeal $222,000 verdict to Supreme Court (Lawyers.com) 

The Chinese government encourages PRC companies to coordinate and cooperate overseas investments. But not in an antitrust kind of way (Sheppard Mullin) 

U.S. patent law is going to look quite different come Monday morning (Foley & Lardner) 

The CFPB wants to make it easier to understand mortgage costs and compare loans (Katten Muchin Rosenman) 

Next on the EPA’s radar: horseracing tracks (Dinsmore & Shohl) 

Know what to do when your nonprofit is sued? Start by reading this update (Venable) 

You may never want to eat Ben & Jerry’s ice cream again (Greenberg Glusker) 

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