Features
Chris Updike
&
Joseph Zujkowski
Faster, Shorter, Smarter, Better
Among other trends, practitioners are increasingly using pre-packaged and pre-negotiated cases, drafting clearer and more concise pleadings, employing smarter deposit management practices, and harnessing improved technology — strategies for a new era of bankruptcy.
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Stewart Sterk
Mining Prohibition Not Pre-Empted By State Law and Not In Violation of SEQRA
Dog Training Facility Not a Customary Home Occupation,br>
Landowner Not Entitled to Variance When Hardship Is Not Unique to the Parcel
ZBA Did Not Consider Statutory Variance Factors
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Janice Inman
Defense Based on Federal Law Cannot Confer Federal Jurisdiction
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Juliet Gunev
New York Brokerage and Two Executives Ordered to Pay $1.58 Million for Misleading Investors In High-Yield Securities Case
Features
Francis J. Lawall
&
John Henry Schanne II
Equal treatment of claims in the same class within a plan of reorganization is an important creditor protection in Chapter 11. However, is it possible to provide certain benefits to some creditors within a single class and not others without running afoul of the Bankruptcy Code? In a recent ruling on an issue of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit certainly made clear it thought so.
Features
Mike Hamilton
Summer 2019 put some interesting case law into the books. We'll take a look at three cases having to do with lost data and whether spoliation sanctions were levied.
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Stewart Sterk
Action Dismissed When Unit Owners Did Not Allege Wrongful Actions Outside Scope of Board Member's Duty As Board Member
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George Soussou
&
Jeff Ginsberg
More Than a Recitation of Hooke's Law Needed for Patent Protection
A Claim for a Chair Limits the Claim to a Chair
Features
Stewart E. Sterk
Block and lot indexes prevalent in New York City were designed to make title searches simpler than those necessary under the grantor-grantee index system prevalent in many other areas of the state and country. Suppose, however, block and lot numbers change over time. To what extent are purchasers on notice of deeds recorded under a block and lot number different from the one prevalent at the time of purchase?
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ssalkin
Constructive Trust Does Not Require Transfer In Reliance
Failure to Obtain Subdivision Approval Does Not Make Title Unmarketable
Accounting Necessary When Property Is Purchased With Wrongfully Appropriated Funds,br>
Church Documents Establish That Synod Did Not Wrongfully Take Local Church's Property
Allegations of Fraud Insufficient to Extend Statute of Limitations on Foreclosure Action
Bona Fide Purchaser Prevails Over Mortgagee of Erroneously Discharged Mortgage
