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The Schofield/Gunner Decisions And Episcopal Church Property-Splitting Litigation: Considering Proposed Improvements To The Litigation Process And The Neutral Principles Of Law Doctrine, Ten Years On, Timothy D. Watson
William & Mary Business Law Review
In recent years, the Episcopal Church in the United States has seen a spate of parishes leaving the Church. Many of these departing parishes have attempted to take property with them as they leave and continue to operate independently or realign themselves with a different denomination. The Episcopal Church maintains that this property is held by the parishes on behalf of the national Church, and has generally been successful in obtaining a return of the property through legal action. In deciding these suits, state courts have skirted carefully around the contours of ecclesiastical questions; many state courts, following the Supreme …
Lending Discrimination, The Foreclosure Crisis And The Perpetuation Of Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Homeownership In The U.S., Aleatra P. Williams
Lending Discrimination, The Foreclosure Crisis And The Perpetuation Of Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Homeownership In The U.S., Aleatra P. Williams
William & Mary Business Law Review
For decades the agencies charged with minding the ‘fair credit and lending’ shop turned a blind eye to those (lenders) who pilfered minority homeownership (and consequently minority wealth) by extending mortgage lending products that were, in many cases, unequal to similarly situated non-minority counterparts. Since the 1950s, when the federal government endorsed homeownership policies for minorities, and the 1960s, when antidiscriminatory D9lending laws were enacted, access to fair mortgage credit has been unattainable. Unbridled lending discrimination culminated in massive foreclosures for a disproportionate number of minority homeowners during the Housing and Foreclosure Crisis. Lenders disparately foreclosed upon upper class, middle …
This Business Of "Procuring Cause" In Virginia, Robert Luther Iii
This Business Of "Procuring Cause" In Virginia, Robert Luther Iii
William & Mary Business Law Review
This Article aims to provide a basic overview of Virginia law resulting from suits for sales commissions, with a special emphasis on “procuring cause” case law. By thinking ahead to the kinds of issues that have resulted in the recovery or failure of sales commissions by agents in past sales commission cases, real estate litigators will be in a better position to advise their clients. To that end, this Article further seeks to serve as a brief, yet stout, reference resource for real estate litigators and members of the Virginia bench confronted with facts directed towards this often nuanced area …