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What Rights Does Commercial Subtenant Have In Security Deposit When Landlord Files for Bankruptcy? Image

What Rights Does Commercial Subtenant Have In Security Deposit When Landlord Files for Bankruptcy?

Andrew C. Kassner & Joseph N. Argentina Jr.

Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code, which governs the disposition of executory contracts, has specific provisions regarding the disposition of commercial real estate leases in bankruptcy, including the rights of a tenant to remain in possession of the leased premises when the landlord files a bankruptcy case and rejects the lease. But what rights does a tenant have with regard to the security deposit delivered by the tenant to the landlord?

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Landlord & Tenant Law

NYRE Staff

Rent Obligations of Successor Tenant to Rent-Controlled Apartment Commences At Prior Tenant's Death Landlord Not Entitled to Attorneys' Fees Incurred In Defending Unsuccessful Class Action

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Fresh Filings

ELF Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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Appellate Review of a Bankruptcy Court's Preliminary Injunction

Michael L. Cook

A bankruptcy court preliminary injunction should be reviewable as of right because of Supreme Court precedent, the rulings of other courts and common sense.

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Real Property Law

NYRE Staff

Administrator's Deed Divested Distributees of Ownership Interest No Rescission of Deed When Mistake Was Not Mutual Restrictive Covenant Did Not Bar Educational Use Issues of Fact About Mortgagee's Knowledge of Fraud Precludes Summary Judgment No Private Right of Action to Enforce Food Cart Regulations

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Mass. Appeals Court: Accelerating Rent As Liquidated Damages Unenforceable

Allison Dunn

The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently reversed a judgment in favor of a landlord in a tenant default matter, finding that a provision of a commercial lease that accelerated the remaining rent as liquidated damages is unenforceable as a penalty. The opinion "brings uncertainty to thousands of existing commercial lease agreements."

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Second Circuit Orders Refund of Unconstitutional Quarterly Fee Overpayment

Francis J. Lawall & Marcy J. McLaughlin Smith

Many practitioners have been speculating as to how courts will address the potential remedy for the unconstitutional U.S. trustee fees imposed against Chapter 11 debtors pending in U.S. trustee districts under the 2017 amendment to 28 U.S.C. Section 1930.

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Yes, There Were Non-COVID Commercial Lease Decisions During the Pandemic

Adam Leitman Bailey & John M. Desiderio

In the past two years, in litigations between commercial landlords and commercial tenants, appellate courts continued to issue decisions on topics, unrelated to COVID questions, that should interest all real estate attorneys and their clients.

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Co-ops and Condominiums

NYRE Staff

Absence of Itemized Statement Did Not Justify Cancellation of Co-Op Corporation's Liens Jury Trial Waiver Enforced Statute of Frauds Prevents Enforcement of Gift of Co-Op Shares Mitchell-Lama Occupant Successor Occupant Entitled to Injunction Tolling Exclusive Purchaser Period

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What's In Store for Bankruptcy In 2023?

Dan Roe

Practitioners Weigh In If anyone was holding out hope for a tidal wave of corporate bankruptcies in 2022, it's time to abandon ship. If that was part of your 2023 budget, don't get on the ship altogether.

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