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Real Property Law
Mortgagee's Action to Vacate Tax Sale Should Not Have Been Dismissed Even Though Redemption Period Had Expired Landowner Has Right of Access Across State Lands Part Performance Exception to Statute of Frauds Inapplicable Emails Insufficient to Satisfy Statute of Frauds Statute of Limitations Does Not Bar Claim to Remove Cloud on Title Purchase Option Not Assignable Buyer Recovers Down Payment When Seller Failed to Deliver Certificate of Occupancy Nassau County's Recording Fees Held Excessive and Improper Section 265-a Authorizes Rescission of Termination Agreement Prescriptive Easement Claim Fails for Failure to Establish Hostile Use
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Landlord & Tenant Law
Tenant's Failure to Restore Premises At End of Lease Constitutes Breach Fraud Exception to Four-Year Lookback Period Inapplicable Guaranty Clause Did Not Bind Tenant's Principal
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CRE Has Survived Crises In the Past and It Will Overcome This One Too
Since the 1980s, the country has been through numerous recessions and real estate crashes. Whenever these downturns or crashes occur, the distressed side of the industry, which is usually dormant until the crash occurs, rises to the challenge and mobilizes its resources to acquire, renovate, release, and sell these foreclosed and vacant properties.
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Owners Have No Constitutional Right to Expand Nonconforming Uses
Can a municipality's refusal to permit expansion of a pre-existing nonconforming use constitute a federal constitutional violation?
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Development
When Zoning Amendment Adds Permitted Uses In Zoning District, Landowners Subject to the Ordinance Have Standing to Challenge the Amendment
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Landlord & Tenant Law
Local Law Prohibiting No-Cause Evictions Pre-Empted By State Law Contractual Indemnification Unenforceable Indemnification Clause Enforced Good Faith Efforts to Cure Extend Cure Period for Yellowstone Injunction
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Real Property Law
Recorded Mortgage Does Not Remove Title Insurance Claim From Policy Exclusion When Underlying Deed Was Not Recorded No Easement By Necessity for Parking Lawn Mowing and Driveway Plowing Suffice to Establish Adverse Possession
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Third Circuit: Pre-Bankruptcy Commercial Lease Termination Not Fraudulent Transfer
Is an insolvent debtor's pre-bankruptcy termination of a commercial lease a fraudulent transfer? The circuit courts seem to be split, however a close reading of cases in the Third and Seventh Circuits shows that the reasoning of both courts can be reconciled on their facts.
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Municipality's Refusal to Permit Expansion of a Pre-Existing Nonconforming Use Doesn't Violate Constitution
Can a municipality's refusal to permit expansion of a pre-existing nonconforming use constitute a federal constitutional violation? The federal district court for the Eastern District of New York faced that question and awarded summary judgment to the municipality, rejecting the landowner's substantive due process and takings claims.
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