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Tenant Improvement Does Not Shift Repair Responsibility Away from Landlord<br>Attorney Fees Not Court-Ordered Cannot Be Recouped by Withholding Rent
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Bit Parts
Katy Perry Defendants Denied Summary Judgment in Copyright Infringement Action Over “Dark Horse”<br>Former Percussionist for The Roots Can Proceed with Lanham Act and Publicity Rights Claims Against the Band
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In the Courts
Business Executive Arrested and Charged with Bribing Venezuelan Officials
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IP News
Federal Circuit Remands for Further Proceedings to Determine Whether RPX's Petitions for IPR Were Time Barred For Failing to Identify Its Client As a 'Real Party in Interest'<br>Federal Circuit Holds that Common Law Tribal Sovereign Immunity Cannot Shield a Patent in IPR Proceedings,br>Federal Circuit Holds that an Unsuccessful IPR Petitioner Must Show 'Concrete Plans' for Future Potentially-Infringing Activity in Order to Demonstrate Article III Standing to Appeal PTAB's IPR Decision
Features
<i>Altman</i>: Six Takeaways
On April 26, 2018, a unanimous Court of Appeals held that apartments vacated between 1997 and 2011 will be considered luxury deregulated where the legal regulated rent was $2,000 or more at the time the incoming tenant moved in. The court reversed the First Department, which had held that such apartments would not be deregulated unless the rent was $2,000 or more at the time the outgoing tenant vacated.
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Landlord & Tenant
Unique Circumstances Require Rent Recomputation<br>City Human Rights Law Requires Landlord to Convert Window Into Wheelchair Accessible Entrance<br>“As Is” Clause Does Not Bar Claim That Landlord Intentionally Caused Defective Conditions
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Development
LPC's Denial of Hardship Application Upheld<br>Developer's Failure to Obtain Final Decision Deprives Federal Court of Subject Matter Jurisdiction<br>Spot Zoning and SEQRA Challenges Rejected
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Cooperatives & Condominiums
Purchaser Adequately Alleged Concealment of Defects<br>Space Allocation Cannot Be Changed Without Unanimous Vote; Unjust Enrichment Claim Survives
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Real Property Law
No Easement Created<r>Grant Created Valid and Alienable Possibility of Reverter<br>Contract Vendee Entitled to Specific Performance<br>Questions of Fact About Scope of Mortgage
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