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Drawing the Line Between Real Property and Personal Property In the UCC
The back-and-forth is certainly confusing, but what is clear is that it can be unclear exactly where the line between real property and personal property should be drawn.
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Law Firms Looking to Retail Space and Other Office Alternatives Post-Pandemic
The prospect of using retail space for law offices is the latest adaptation, in addition to innovations such as hoteling and other forms of shared workspace, that may define law firm offices in the future as the COVID-19 pandemic makes a permanent mark on how firms configure and run their offices.
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Open Space Accessibility and the Conundrum of High Stakes Zoning Disputes
The New York Court of Appeals' recent decision in Peyton v. BSA held, in the context of a zoning lot containing several residential buildings, that the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York does not require an area to be accessible to all residents of the zoning lot for the area to qualify as "open space."
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Real Property Law
Neighbors Lack Sufficient Interest to Intervene In Modification of Restriction on Land Held for Charitable Purposes Absence of Property Description Did Not Preclude Equitable Mortgage City Entitled to Cancel Contract With Delinquent Former Owner When Owner Failed to Appear At Closing Statute of Limitations Does Not Bar Continuing Nuisance Claim Against Drilling Contractor
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Landlord & Tenant Law
Guaranty Did Not Extend Past Lease Term Holdover Rent Award Reduced Tenant Is Entitled to Yellowstone Injunction Despite Failure to Attempt to Cure
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Co-ops and Condominiums
Shareholder's Failure to Seek Relief During Cure Period Bars Preliminary Injunction Non-Purchasing Senior Citizens Not Protected Against Eviction Upon Conversion Occupant of Rent Stabilized Co-Op Unit Entitled to Succession Rights
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Open Space and the Conundrum of High Stakes Zoning Disputes
The New York Court of Appeals' recent decision in Peyton v. BSA held, in the context of a zoning lot containing several residential buildings, that the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York does not require an area to be accessible to all residents of the zoning lot for the area to qualify as "open space."
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NY Court of Appeals Rules on Damages Clauses In Commercial Leases
In The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York v. D'Agostino Supermarkets, the NY Court of Appeals split on the issue of whether the relevant damages clause in a commercial lease was unenforceable as a matter of law because it was so grossly disproportionate to the ascertainable amount due upon full performance.
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The Small Business Reorganization Act: How It Started. How it's Going. Where to Next?
This article provides a brief overview of the SBRA and these first several months of its use — especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic — concluding that in 2021, Congress should permanently adopt the CARES Act's expanded definition of a "small business debtor" as including businesses with up to $7.5 million in aggregate non-contingent liquidated debts.
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Challenges for Real Estate Lenders When Borrowers Default
During periods of distress in the real estate industry, if a lender is not going to enter into a consensual workout or loan restructuring with their defaulted borrower, the lender will be presented with the choice of either enforcing rights under its loan documents or marketing and selling the distressed loan.
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