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The Bankruptcy Code's Inherent Limitations for Struggling Golf Courses
<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p>This article describes conflicts with zoning boards and neighbors as it relates to distressed golf course properties and the methods sometimes available in the bankruptcy realm for working around the problem of restrictive covenants that run with the land.
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Use of Arbitration In Place of Inter Partes Review Proceedings
An IPR might be more efficiently accomplished through arbitration than through a PTAB proceeding, so it should be considered by practitioners.
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In the Courts
Sentencing for Two Bankers in Zürcher Kantonalbank of Switzerland Case
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Case Notes
Without Contractual Consent to Inspection, Lack of Protest Doesn't Excuse Landlord's Trespass<br>Resulting Trust Found Where Commercial Property Held in Just One Partner's Name
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Eighth Circuit Rejects Ponzi Scheme Presumption to Protect Legitimate Loan Repayments
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the lower courts' dismissal of a bankruptcy trustee's $250 million fraudulent transfer suit against two banks (the Banks), rejecting the so called “Ponzi scheme presumption” that “allows a creditor to by-pass the proof requirements of a fraudulent-transfer claim by showing that the debtor operated a Ponzi scheme and transferred assets 'in furtherance of the scheme.'”
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Bit Parts
Complaints to Amazon by TV Show Host and His Attorney Didn't Constitute DMCA Notices<br>No Actual Malice by Defendants in Libel Suit over Composite Character in Film
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IP News
Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Does Not Invalidate Section 156 Patent Term Extension <br>Federal Circuit Holds Assignor Estoppel Does Not Apply in IPR Context<br>Federal Circuit Reverses District Court Holding of Patent Ineligibility of Computer Security Patent
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Legal Tech: Cases Highlighting Judicial Discretion in Ordering E-Discovery Sanctions
Three cases from the summer of 2018 reinforce some of the key themes of recent e-discovery case law
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Appellate Division Complicates the Rules for Municipalities Charging Consultants' Fees
In a case addressing what consulting fees (in particular attorneys' fees) can be charged to an applicant before a Zoning Board of Appeals, the Second Department in Landstein v. Town of LaGrange found that the Town had overreached its statutory authority.
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Real Property Law
Co-Tenant Obtains Partition Upon Failure of Adverse Possession Claim<br>Questions of Fact Remain About Violation of Covenant Requiring Use As a Catholic High School<br>Mortgagor's Letter Seeking Short Sale Did Not Reset Statute of Limitations on Mortgage<br>Failure to Construct Facility Triggers Reverter Provision in Deed<br>Questions of Fact About Whether Buyers Had Made Time of the Essence<br>No Equitable Mortgage When Statute of Limitations Bars Written Mortgage<br>Cotenant Entitled to Partition with Accounting
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