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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Landlords

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Anti-Discrimination And Disability Rights In Real Estate: Past, Present, And Future

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Despite decades of legislative progress, individuals with disabilities continue to face significant barriers in finding fair and accessible housing. From inaccessible design to unlawful denials of reasonable accommodations,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A Landlord’s Guide to Assistive Animals

With the surge of return to work policies cropping up through out the US, we have received an uptick of landlord inquiries about pets and animals in leased spaces. While it is a landlord's prerogative to prohibit pets in...more

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Property Owner Considerations Around Electric Vehicle Bans

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. recently reported that Oberon Development Corp., a Toronto property management company and apartment project owner, banned the use and storage on its properties of electric vehicles like cars,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at the Ninth: Arbitration and Accommodation

This week, we take a look at one Ninth Circuit decision exploring the enforceability of an arbitration clause precluding a party from acting as a “private attorney general,” and another addressing whether the Fair Housing...more

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Florida Enacts Law To Combat Emotional Support Animal Fraud in Housing

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A new law in Florida takes aim at fraudulent requests for emotional support animals in housing by requiring that residents do more than provide online animal “registrations” or certificates, mandates that...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

DESALOJOS RESIDENCIALES: LO QUE LOS INQUILINOS NECESITAN SABER

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DESALOJO – BLOQUEO DEL ACCESO AL HOGAR- ¿Me pueden bloquear el acceso a mi casa durante la emergencia COVID-19? No. El 19 de marzo de 2020, el gobernador de Nueva Jersey, Philip Murphy, emitió la Orden Ejecutiva 106,...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Residential Evictions: What Tenants Need To Know-UPDATED July, 2020 #1

LOCKOUTS- Can I be locked out of my home during the COVID-19 emergency? No. On March 19, 2020, New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy issued Executive Order 106, which immediately suspends evictions throughout the state....more

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Emotional Support Animals: Do They Have To Live Here?

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Recognizing the drastic increase in the number of requests being made to housing providers for “emotional support animals” by residents who do not appear to be disabled, at the end of January, the U.S. Department of Housing...more

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Catching Up With Reader Assistance Animal Questions

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First, let me go off topic for a minute to wish everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving holiday. As I do once a year, I want to give a special shout out to my wife (Hi Sweetie!) to see if she actually reads these posts....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

News from AGG's Retail Industry Team - Summer Edition

Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides “[n]o individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges,...more

Payne & Fears

Are Your Commercial Lease Forms ADA Compliant?

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A commercial property owner must now provide the tenant with a current disability access inspection certificate and inspection report or a copy of a CASp inspection report, if such a report has been issued which indicates...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

News from AGG's Retail industry Team - Winter Edition

How much is that Facebook page worth to your Business? At first glance, this question may seem relatively unimportant in the context of an M&A transaction. It rings true that social media accounts usually receive little...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Hot Topics in Commercial Real Estate Winter 2017

Arnall Golden Gregory’s Retail Industry Team would like to thank those that joined us for our Annual Breakfast Briefing “Hot Topics for Commercial Property Owners and Managers” on November 29, 2016. We hope that you found the...more

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What Landlords and Property Managers Need to Know About the Americans with Disabilities Act

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of “drive-by lawsuits” involving the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). Such actions typically involve a plaintiff’s lawyer cruising around town with a disabled individual...more

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Arizona Court Consolidates ADA Lawsuits

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The number of claims under the design and construction requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) continues to increase, but a recent development in Arizona may slow this trend. The Arizona Attorney General has...more

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New CA Law Requires Disclosing Known ADA Violations During Lease Negotiations

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In yet another effort to reduce ADA lawsuits, California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law – effective immediately – legislation to encourage tenants and landlords to acknowledge and address any...more

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Serial Plaintiffs Are Filing Waves of Disability Cases

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Hotels, restaurants and retail establishments have been flooded with new lawsuits filed by serial plaintiffs that allege that a property (a place of public accommodation) is in violation of Title III of the Americans with...more

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ADA Compliance: Landlords, You're On the Hook

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The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination based on disability. Title III of the ADA requires that businesses provide accommodations to persons with disabilities and access that is equal or similar to...more

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Commercial Landlords in San Francisco Beware

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Chapter 38 of the San Francisco Administrative Code imposes new requirements on commercial leasing activities (both new leases and amendments of existing leases) in San Francisco where the leased premises contain 7,500 square...more

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