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No Tacking of Adverse Possession Claims<br>Issues of Fact Preclude Injunction Requiring Removal of Encroachments<br>Statute of Limitations Bars Foreclosure Claim<br>Permission Bars Prescriptive Easement Claim
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<i>Simon v. Starbucks</i>: Preliminary Injunction Granted to Prevent Store Closings
While the court will not have the opportunity to rule on the merits of the case, the facts relied upon by the Indiana Superior Court and the conclusions reached in rendering its decision are still instructive for practitioners drafting continuous-use provisions and advising clients on potential breaches or anticipatory breaches of such provisions.
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Regulating Interior Landmarks: New York Court Says Duties Don't End
What powers does the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission have to require a building owner to maintain a mechanical clock located in the interior of a building? In <i>Save America's Clocks, Inc. v. City of New York</i>, New York's Appellate Division, First Department, held that the Commission had power to require maintenance of the clock, and to require public access to it.
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Cooperatives & Condominiums
Questions of Fact Bar Summary Judgment in Condominium's Claim for Improper Alterations<br>Sponsor Did Not Breach Purchase Contract<br>Unit Owners Did Not Have Exclusive Right to Elevator Shaft
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Landlord & Tenant
Denial of Remaining Family Member Status Upheld<br>Occupant Entitled to Succession Rights to Stabilized Apartment Even If Named Tenant Continued to Sign Leases After Moving Out<br>Tenant Entitled to Succession Rights to Rent-Controlled Apartment<br>Landlord Did Not Establish Use of Apartment to Facilitate Drug Trading<br>421-G Buildings Subject to Luxury Deregulation<br>Incarcerated Son Note Entitled to Succession Rights
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Suit in Second Jurisdiction Is Duplicative<br>Mailing Rent Check While Doing Unauthorized Acts Is Not Mail Fraud
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Regulating Interior Landmarks
What powers does the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) have to require a building owner to maintain a mechanical clock located in the interior of a building? In <i>Save America's Clocks, Inc. v. City of New York</i>, that issue generated a 3-2 division in the First Department, with the majority holding that the Commission had power to require maintenance of the clock, and to require public access to it.
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Development
Town Board Failed to Take 'Hard Look' at Amendment<br>Jurisdictional Determination from Army Corps<br>Developer Failed to Allege Concrete Injury
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Real Property Law
Failure to Disclose Gas Tanks Does Not Constitute Contract Breach<br>Divestiture Agreement<br>Unrecorded Mortgage<br>CEMA Suffices
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