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Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC

Warning to Washington Corporations: Refusal to Engage and Assist Customers in a Valid Dispute May Prove Costly in Court

In February 2022, Washington’s Court of Appeals for Division III reached a decision awarding attorney’s fees and costs for prelitigation bad faith in a matter of first impression for Washington courts. In Dalton v. North...more

Freeman Law

Texas Law and Business Disparagement

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This article discusses Business Disparagement under Texas law. This article does not discuss the tort of defamation or slander of title. Although similar to defamation or slander of title, the false assertion in a business...more

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Submerged Lands: Florida Appellate Court Addresses Whether Adjacent Riparian Landowner Rights Are Restricted

The Florida Second District Court of Appeal (“Court”), in an Opinion published on February 26, 2021, addressed an issue involving the right of a riparian to build a structure over adjacent submerged lands under different...more

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Mortgagee-Protection Clauses Are Not Dead in Nevada Nonresidential Property Owners’ Associations

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For the last several years, there has been a tremendous amount of litigation in Nevada arising from residential foreclosure sales conducted by homeowners’ associations (HOA). The main issue in those cases has been whether the...more

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Of Passion, Prejudice and Punitive Damages

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Addressing an issue of damages, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated the district court’s grant of punitive damages in favor of the plaintiff, finding “passion and prejudice” mitigated finding of “malice”....more

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The Difficulty of Enforcing an Unwritten Contract

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Imagine how much better off you would be if the contract you want to enforce had been reduced to writing. See West v. Quintanilla for what happens when it wasn’t....more

Maynard Nexsen

Malicious Prosecution – Can It Result From Filing A Lis Pendens?

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Those of us with any significant history of practice in South Carolina have made an allegation or defended against an allegation of slander of title. Such allegations, and actions for slander of title, were significantly...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Four Things to Know About Lis Pendens

Lis pendens is a long-standing, frequently misunderstood doctrine concerning unorthodox interests in real estate. The doctrine of lis pendens literally means “pending suit,” and lis pendens notices are the machinery whereby a...more

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