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DOJ Corporate Enforcement Guidelines Are Placing Individual Defendants Between a Rock and a Whirlpool Image

DOJ Corporate Enforcement Guidelines Are Placing Individual Defendants Between a Rock and a Whirlpool

David S. Krakoff, Bradley A. Marcus & Nadav Ariel

For companies suspected of wrongdoing, cooperating with DOJ investigations and self-disclosing their misconduct often appears to be their only option to avoid prosecution and reduce large financial penalties. But, these benefits often come at a price, especially to company employees who are caught in the middle.

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Industrial Development Agency's Determination Rationally Related to Stated Public Purpose<br>Industrial Development Agency Did Not Have Authority to Condemn Land Already Used for a Public Purpose

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

State Appeals Court Decides Alimony for Country Artist Joe Diffie's Ex-Wife Shouldn't Be Based on “Speculative Income” <br>Arbitration Clause in TV-Show Appearance Release Found Severable From Rest of Agreement

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'Fresh Start' Leads To Bankruptcy Discharge of Environmental Contamination Claims

Andrew C. Kassner & Joseph N. Argentina Jr.

One of the powerful benefits of bankruptcy is the ability to obtain a “fresh” start by obtaining a discharge of most, but not all claims that arose prior to the filing of the bankruptcy case. But when does a claim arise? This issue is especially complex when environmental contamination claims are involved.

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Negotiating Relocation Rights

Terrence M. Dunn

Despite the apparent risks, relocation provisions are frequently not a potential tenant's priority concern when negotiating the business points of a lease. This is a serious oversight. Signing a lease with an overly broad relocation provision can lead to many issues if the landlord elects to exercise its right to relocate the tenant.

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Negotiating Relocation Rights

Terrence M. Dunn

Despite the apparent risks, relocation provisions are frequently not a potential tenant's priority concern when negotiating the business points of a lease. This is a serious oversight. Signing a lease with an overly broad relocation provision can lead to many issues if the landlord elects to exercise its right to relocate the tenant.

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Covenants That Run with the Land Can Be Waived

Jeffrey Turkel

Real estate practitioners tend to think of covenants that run with the land as absolute. Another way to look at such covenants is that there are contractual in nature, and that contractual provisions can be waived or abandoned, at least by the party that benefits from them. That is what the First Department recently held in New York City Transit Auth. v 4761 Broadway Assocs., LLC.

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Eminent Domain Law

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No Consequential Damages When State Takes Neighbor's Land

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Development

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Nonconforming Use Not Discontinued<br>Developer's Rico, Estoppel, and Equal Protection Claims Dismissed<br>Denial of Area Variance Overturned

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Affirmative Covenant Enforceable Against Successor Developer<br>Post-Sandy FEMA Height Requirements Might Make Restrictive Covenant Unenforceable

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