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Affordable Housing Clock Ticks Toward June 2025 Deadline in New Jersey’s Fourth Round

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The latest round of affordable housing development in New Jersey is well underway, with a key deadline for municipalities and developers fast approaching on June 30, 2025. This fourth round — spanning 2025 to 2035 — is...more

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Comparing the Business-Focused Courts of Delaware, Texas, and Nevada

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Over the last year, a discussion has accelerated around Delaware’s status as the favored state of incorporation for business entities, with many ventures debating whether they should choose to incorporate in Delaware or, if...more

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Supreme Court declines final review in Territorial Act dispute involving electric vehicle charging stations

The Georgia Supreme Court has denied a request by Sawnee EMC to take up and consider a final appeal in a long-running lawsuit over the right to serve an electric vehicle (EV) charging station. The case arose from Georgia...more

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Nevada Supreme Court Rules Email Constitutes a Written Agreement

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Nevada law requires taxpayers to meet certain prerequisites before seeking judicial review of a Nevada Tax Commission decision. Taxpayers must either pay the amount at dispute or enter into a written agreement with the Nevada...more

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Texas Supreme Court Allows Enforcement of a JOA Debt After Foreclosure

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In Steelhead Midstream Partners, LLC v. CL III Funding Holding Company, LLC, the Texas Supreme Court authorized a pipeline owner’s breach-of-contract claim—alleging a co-owner used foreclosure to avoid cost-sharing...more

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The Massachusetts Prompt Payment Act Continues to Have Harsh Consequences for Transgressors, Unwitting or Otherwise

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With the exception of those living under rocks, construction professionals are well aware of the recent spate of litigation about the Massachusetts Prompt Pay Act. In 2022, the Massachusetts Appeals Court interpreted the Act...more

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Senate Bill 940 Changes Consumer Arbitrations in California

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California Senate Bill 940 (SB 940) goes into effect on January 1, 2025.  SB 940 introduces new restrictions and requirements that will change how consumer disputes are arbitrated in California. The law has potentially...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Federal Appeals Court: Pay That Man His Money, Unless That Money Is Illegal Marijuana Money

Good news, bad news if you’re a cannabis operator that owes money to a creditor. But probably bad news for the rule of law. A federal appellate court has ruled that a cannabis operator is obligated to repay his debts to...more

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Texas Business Courts: What You Need to Know

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On September 1, 2024, the Texas Business Court and Fifteenth Court of Appeals, created by House Bill 19, will begin hearing cases. The Business Court was designed to provide a specialized venue for commercial disputes...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

US Regional Employment 2021: Alabama | Insights & Events

Law and Practice Chambers - The 2020 Chambers US Regional Employment Guide features guidance on employment law across 14 states and includes a unique state comparison tool for readers. The guide provides expert legal...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A New Day for Arbitration in Mississippi?

The Mississippi Supreme Court’s decision in Carrick v. Turner ex rel. Walley has the potential to expand arbitration in Mississippi. The case announces a standard for evaluating the validity of arbitration clauses that is...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A New Tool for Resolving Litigation: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Virtual Mediations

In March of 2020, when state-wide coronavirus lockdowns began in earnest, litigations confronted the fact that practically everything on the schedule — depositions, mediations, and court appearances — had been canceled. To...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

Federal “No Surprises Act” Brings National Oversight Of Unexpected Billing For Healthcare Services

In the waning days of Donald Trump’s administration, the federal government passed the “No Surprises Act,” which becomes effective January 1, 2022. Like many recent state laws, the legislation is aimed at protecting patients...more

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California Residential and Commercial Evictions and Judicial Foreclosures Prevented by Emergency Amendments to California Rules of...

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On April 6, 2020, the California Judicial Council issued emergency amendments to the California Rules of Court regarding evictions under commercial and residential leases and judicial foreclosures....more

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Condominium Bills That Passed the House of Delegates But Were Not Voted on in the Senate

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The following House of Delegates bills in 2019 session of the Maryland General Assembly passed in a vote of the full House but failed to get out of committee in the Senate: HB207 concerning members qualified to vote to...more

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Pennsylvania Amends Condominium Law to Help Associations

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The Pennsylvania General Assembly recently enacted bills amending the common interest ownership laws, the Uniform Condominium Act (UCA), the Uniform Planned Community Act, and the Uniform Real Estate Cooperative Act....more

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Washington State Legislature Responds to the #MeToo Movement

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Washington has adopted four new laws addressing workplace harassment and discrimination. Three prohibit limitations on an employee’s disclosure or public pursuit of discrimination or harassment claims, while the fourth...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Overhaul of Illinois LLC Act Provides Modernization, Increased Flexibility

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Significant changes have been made to the Illinois Limited Liability Company Act (the Act) that will impact both existing and new LLCs. These changes, which took effect on July 1, 2017, were designed in part to bring the Act...more

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Arizona Enacts “Surprise Out-Of-Network” Balance Billing Law

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Arizona has joined the national trend of trying to solve the “problem” of “surprise medical out-of-network bills.” The prevalence of this concern was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine which stated that 22% of...more

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