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Remediating Racism For Rent: A Landlord’S Obligation Under The Fha, Mollie Krent
Remediating Racism For Rent: A Landlord’S Obligation Under The Fha, Mollie Krent
Michigan Law Review
The Fair Housing Act (FHA) is an expansive and powerful piece of legislation that furthers equal housing in the United States by ferreting out discrimination in the housing market. While the power of the Act is well recognized by courts, the full contours of the FHA are still to be refined. In particular, it remains unsettled whether and when a landlord can be liable for tenant-on-tenant harassment. This Note argues, first, that the FHA does recognize liability in such a circumstance and, second, that a landlord should be subject to liability for her negligence in such a circumstance. Part I …
Considering Sanctions Compliance In Light Of Ucc 4a, Michael Zytnick, Alaina Gimbert
Considering Sanctions Compliance In Light Of Ucc 4a, Michael Zytnick, Alaina Gimbert
Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
As part of a bank’s financial crime compliance program, it is increasingly common to screen and halt the processing of a payment order for compliance investigation where reference is made to a potential, but unconfirmed, target of United States economic sanctions. This essay discusses challenges under Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code concerning the timing of such an investigation and the creation of potential liability where a bank wrongly accepts by execution a previously halted payment order received from a sender following five funds transfer business days after the relevant execution date or payment date of that order. In …
Pushing Back On Stricter Copyright Isp Liability Rules, Pamela Samuelson
Pushing Back On Stricter Copyright Isp Liability Rules, Pamela Samuelson
Michigan Technology Law Review
For more than two decades, internet service providers (ISPs) in the United States, the European Union (EU), and many other countries have been shielded from copyright liability under “safe harbor” rules. These rules apply to ISPs who did not know about or participate in user-uploaded infringements and who take infringing content down after receiving notice from rights holders. Major copyright industry groups were never satisfied with these safe harbors, and their dissatisfaction has become more strident over time as online infringements have grown to scale.
Responding to copyright industry complaints, the EU in 2019 adopted its Directive on Copyright and …