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Decisions of Interest

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Recent rulings of importance to your practice.

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What's happening in neighboring states.

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Examination Order Violated Abuse Victim's Rights, Panel Says

Jeff Storey

A Family Court order that a teenage sexual abuse victim undergo a highly intrusive "forensic medical examination" violated her Fourth Amendment rights, a Brooklyn appellate court has ruled.

Bias in Custody Evaluations

Jeffrey P. Wittmann

Cognitive sets and assumptions, however formed, create a kind of lens through which data that is gathered on a family is processed and interpreted. And these biases create the very real potential for errors to be made at the stage where the court is being given an evaluator's "bottom line" about a particular child's needs or a certain parent's skills and capacities.

When Is an Order Not an Order?

Lee Rosenberg

In two reported cases addressing the enforceability of the "automatic orders," the results were seemingly contradictory as to the remedy for "violation" of these "orders.

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Real Property Law

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Review of two key cases.

Landlord & Tenant

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A look at recent key cases.

Development

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Analysis of a major case.

Cooperatives & Condominiums

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A recent case is discussed.

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What Is Left of <i>Caveat Emptor</i>?

Stewart E. Sterk

New York courts continue to hold that <i>caveat emptor</i> ' let the buyer beware ' represents the general rule applicable to real property transactions. Two recent appellate cases, however, illustrate continuing uncertainty about the remaining scope of the <i>caveat emptor</i> doctrine, while Real Property Law sections 462 and 465 limit the doctrine's significance in many residential transactions.

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