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Client Alert: Federal Circuit Issues Important Takings Decision on Eviction Moratorium

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In a significant Takings Clause opinion, Darby Development Company, Inc. v. United States, the Federal Circuit sided with landlords who argued that the CDC’s eviction moratorium constituted a physical taking of their...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Limits on Limits: Commercial Lease Provision Limiting Landlord’s Liability Deemed Unenforceable

Generally, California law treats parties to a commercial lease as sufficiently sophisticated, equal bargainers, capable of negotiating an agreement governing their relationship, such that it should be enforced and not...more

White and Williams LLP

The Sounds of Silence: Pennsylvania’s Sutton Rule

In Westminster Am. Ins. Co. a/s/o Androulla M. Toffalli v. Bond, No. 538 EDA 2023, 2023 Pa. Super. LEXIS 626, 2023 PA Super 272, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (Appellate Court) recently discussed the impact of silence on...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

The Letter of Credit Conundrum: When a Debtor’s Default May Be Preferable to Its Late Payment

“Can an unsecured creditor be better off when the debtor defaults rather than paying off the debt? Yes: Law can be stranger than fiction in the Preference Zone.”—Ninth Circuit Untimely payment by tenants and other obligors...more

White and Williams LLP

Favorable Decision for New Jersey Property Owners Regarding Snow and Ice Removal

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On January 23, 2020, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a favorable decision to landlords regarding snow and ice removal liability between a tenant and a landlord. In the case of Baldwin Shields v. Ramslee Motors, No. A-53,...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Foreclosure Against a Commercial Landlord: Impact on Lease Rights

Foreclosure can often have tricky impacts on lease rights...  See Eviction After Foreclosure: California Supreme Court Weighs In and When a Lender Forecloses on a Leasehold Interest…. An opinion recently published by...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

A Lease and a Lease Guaranty Involve Different Rights and Remedies

Sister blog The LLC Jungle recently posted about an opinion from California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal — Orozco v. WPV San Jose, LLC — describing the legal difference between an LLC tenant, and the LLC’s owner who...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

An LLC And Its Owner Are Not the Same Legal “Person”

A limited liability company (LLC) is a popular form of business entity. One of the main reasons for forming any business entity is to limit liability. In general, without a showing of “alter ego” liability, a business owner...more

Carlton Fields

Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending April 19, 2019

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Real Property Update - • Special Tax District Bond Validation: hospital center special tax district could not validate bonds intended to finance the construction of a hospital outside the geographic boundaries established...more

Polsinelli

Virginia General Assembly Reverses Virginia Supreme Court on Requirement that Leases of more than Five Years be in the form of a...

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In legislative action that will be welcomed by Virginia landlords and their mortgage lenders, the Virginia General Assembly, in its most recent session, amended the Virginia Statute of Conveyances (Va. Code Ann. § 55-2) to...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Loss of Use can be “Property Damage” under Insurance Policies

General liability insurance policies normally cover “property damage.” Physical injury to, or outright destruction of, property almost always fits within policy coverage. But what about situations when the property is not...more

Perkins Coie

Ninth Circuit Holds that Rent Control Board’s Denial of a Mobile Home Owner’s Request for Rent Increase Is Not an Unconstitutional...

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The Ninth Circuit held that the City of Carson’s mobile home rent control board’s decision not to factor in debt service increases in its adjustment of a rental rate for a mobile home park did not result in a regulatory...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Contribution Rights Among Co-Guarantors: Liability Must Be Proportional

In reviewing notable guaranty cases from 2017 while preparing this year’s updates and edits for CEB’s top-notch treatise, California Mortgages, Deeds of Trust, and Foreclosure Litigation, we came across an opinion that...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Failure by Injured Party to Take Reasonable Action May Limit Recovery - Construction and Procurement Law News, Q2 2018

There are instances where a party’s breach of the construction contract is undisputed. However, the amount of recoverable damages often hinges on the injured party’s own conduct both during and following that breach. The...more

Snell & Wilmer

Specific Performance of an Option Contract to Purchase Real Property is Barred Absent Agreement on All Material Terms

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On November 14, 2017, the Court of Appeals (Division 1), in Offerman v. Granada, LLC, 2017 WL 5352664, reversed a trial court order directing specific performance of an alleged option to purchase real property, holding that...more

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Appellate Court Notes

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Supreme Court Advance Release Opinions: SC19589 - Velecela v. All Habitat Services, LLC - SC19589 Concurrence - Velecela v. All Habitat Services, LLC - Claim for negligent infliction of bystander emotion...more

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