Exactions For The Future,
2015
Texas A&M University School of Law
Exactions For The Future, Timothy M. Mulvaney
Timothy M. Mulvaney
New development commonly contributes to projected infrastructural demands caused by multiple parties or amplifies the impacts of anticipated natural hazards. At times, these impacts only can be addressed through coordinated actions over a lengthy period. In theory, the ability of local governments to attach conditions, or “exactions,” to discretionary land use permits can serve as one tool to accomplish this end. Unlike traditional exactions that regularly respond to demonstrably measurable, immediate development harms, these “exactions for the future” — exactions responsive to cumulative anticipated future harms — admittedly can present land assembly concerns and involve inherently uncertain long-range government forecasting. …
Article 9 And The Characterization And Treatment Of Tenant Security Deposits,
2015
Texas A&M University School of Law
Article 9 And The Characterization And Treatment Of Tenant Security Deposits, William H. Henning, R. Wilson Freyermuth
William H. Henning
No abstract provided.
Waterlocked: Public Access To New Jersey's Coastline,
2015
Selected Works
Waterlocked: Public Access To New Jersey's Coastline, Timothy Mulvaney, Brian Weeks
Timothy M. Mulvaney
No abstract provided.
The Rhetorics Of Taking Cases: It's Mine V. Let's Share,
2015
Texas A&M University School of Law
The Rhetorics Of Taking Cases: It's Mine V. Let's Share, Susan Ayres
Susan Ayres
Regulatory takings cases originated in 1922 when Justice Holmes, in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, ruled that "while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if a regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking." This simple rule has resulted in over eighty years of case law that Carol Rose states has left takings law to "muddle along." While many legal scholars decry the incoherence and inconsistency of takings case law, this article provides a rhetorical analysis that explains the "muddle" as a result of rhetorical tensions between a Sophistic approach ("Let's Share") and an Aristotelian …
The Game Is Afoot!: The Significance Of Donative Transfers In The Sherlock Holmes Canon,
2015
Texas A&M University School of Law
The Game Is Afoot!: The Significance Of Donative Transfers In The Sherlock Holmes Canon, Stephen R. Alton
Stephen Alton
This article presents a recently discovered and previously unpublished manuscript written by John H. Watson, M.D., and annotated by Professor Stephen Alton. Dr. Watson’s manuscript records an extended conversation that took place between the good doctor and his great friend, the renowned consulting detective Mr. Sherlock Holmes, regarding issues of gratuitous transfers of property – issues involving inheritances, wills, and trusts – that have arisen in some of the great cases solved by Mr. Holmes. This felicitous discovery confirms something that Professor Alton has long known: these gratuitous transfer issues permeate many of these adventures. Often, the action in the …
The Intention Of The Settlor Under The Uniform Trust Code: Whose Property Is It, Anyway?,
2015
The University of Akron
The Intention Of The Settlor Under The Uniform Trust Code: Whose Property Is It, Anyway?, Alan Newman
Akron Law Review
Given the increasingly common use of perpetual and other longterm trusts, the pace of change and complexity in our society now and in the foreseeable future, and our sensibilities with respect to private property rights and dead hand control, the UTC appears to have struck a reasonable balance between respecting the settlor’s intent and accommodating the interests of beneficiaries. Undoubtedly, some will find it to have gone too far in favor of trust beneficiaries, while others will find it not to have gone far enough. In any case, this centuries old debate, like the new perpetual trusts that have contributed …
Improvement Doctrines,
2015
Georgia State University College of Law
Improvement Doctrines, Deepa Varadarajan
Deepa Varadarajan
When one party makes significant but unauthorized improvements to another's land, chattels or informational assets, should the "improving" nature of the act alter the liability or remedy calculus? Traditional property law has long had to resolve conflicts that arise when one person improves another's land or chattels without permission -- for example, if A cuts down B's trees and fashions a chair, or A erects a building on B's land. Ordinarily, A would be liable and subject to an injunction because B has a strict right to exclude that is protected by a property rule. But various doctrines in traditional …
Bank Of America V. Caulkett,
2015
Golden Gate University School of Law
Bank Of America V. Caulkett, Roger Bernhardt
Publications
A junior mortgage lien cannot be stripped off in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy just because it is entirely underwater. California law pretty much says the same; see Barbieri v Ramelli (1890) 84 C 154, holding that a secured creditor’s demonstration that the mortgages senior to hers exceed the value of the property is not enough to let her bypass the oneaction rule and sue on her note. On the other hand, if the senior has actually foreclosed his superior lien, then she is a “soldout junior” who can sue directly on her note without foreclosing.
Lessons Not To Learn About Merger,
2015
Golden Gate University School of Law
Lessons Not To Learn About Merger, Roger Bernhardt
Publications
Ram’s Gate Winery, LLC v Roche (2015) 235 CA4th 1071 teaches lessons that both transactional and litigation attorneys should not particularly want to learn. These lessons suggest that the old common law doctrine of merger can be safely ignored, whereas clients could suffer unpleasant consequences if those issues are not securely covered in the contract.
Mira Overseas Consulting Ltd. V Muse Family Enters., Ltd.,
2015
Golden Gate University School of Law
Mira Overseas Consulting Ltd. V Muse Family Enters., Ltd., Roger Bernhardt
Publications
The normal rule dictating the priority of rival claims generally depends on which party got its judgment first (rather than, e.g., which made its loan first, or first went unpaid, or was first to file suit), but this decision adds that the date of getting a judgment relates back to an earlier time if a lis pendens had been filed.
California Bldg. Indus. Ass'n. V. City Of San Jose,
2015
Golden Gate University School of Law
California Bldg. Indus. Ass'n. V. City Of San Jose, Roger Bernhardt
Publications
If an inclusionary housing ordinance is regarded as an “exaction”—because it compelled a developer to pay through land dedication or in-lieu fees—then the city must show that (1) there was a reasonable relationship between the deleterious effects of the new housing and the economic burden imposed on the developer —the nexus—and (2) the burden is reasonably proportional to the problems created by the development.
Monterossa V Superior Court,
2015
Golden Gate University School of Law
Monterossa V Superior Court, Roger Bernhardt
Publications
In 2005, petitioners obtained a $359,650 mortgage from PNC Mortgage for the purchase of a home. In 2013, petitioners became unable to make their mortgage payments and contacted PNC for hardship assistance. PNC failed to send a hardship assistance package to petitioners. Despite that failure, PNC later notified petitioners that their request for hardship assistance was denied “because PNC did not receive a completed hardship assistance package” from petitioners and recorded a notice of default. In November 2013, petitioners submitted a loan modification agreement to PNC; in December 2013, PNC confirmed that it had received a complete package. Despite that …
Ni Incoherente Ni Inconstitucional: El (¿Nuevo?) 2014° Cc, Su Falsa Metamorfosis Y Nuestra Fe Pública Registral “Macondiana”,
2015
Universidad San Marcos
Ni Incoherente Ni Inconstitucional: El (¿Nuevo?) 2014° Cc, Su Falsa Metamorfosis Y Nuestra Fe Pública Registral “Macondiana”, Alan A. Pasco Arauco
Alan A. Pasco Arauco
No abstract provided.
Profiles - Ucan’S New Campus Construction Project, Chicago, Illinois,
2015
New York Law School
Profiles - Ucan’S New Campus Construction Project, Chicago, Illinois, James Hagy, Sahar Nikanjam
Rooftops Project
Funding and constructing a new $41 million facility may be a once-in-a-generation, if ever, event, for many social service not-for-profits. Choosing a site that invests directly in the neighborhood and the people served can have ripple effects far beyond the central purpose of the delivery of services the buildings are designed to support. The Rooftops Project’s Sahar Nikanjam and Professor James Hagy walked the site of UCAN’s new campus construction under way in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.
Bankruptcy Weapons To Terminate A Zombie Mortgage,
2015
University of Missouri School of Law
Bankruptcy Weapons To Terminate A Zombie Mortgage, Andrea Boyack, Robert Berger
Faculty Publications
Bankruptcy’s strongest public policy is the possibility of a fresh start for a borrower – a way for a debtor to free himself from the burdens of pre-petition obligations and re-commence his or her financial life. A debtor can surrender property burdened by a lien to the lien-holder and thereby release him or herself from ongoing obligations under the loan. This is true even in cases where the collateral’s value is less than the secured loan – for in bankruptcy, a lender’s secured claim is limited to the value of its lien. In chapter 13, a debtor who elects to …
Summary Of Dep't Of Taxation V. Kawahara., 131 Nev. Adv. Op. 42 (June 25, 2015),
2015
Nevada Law Journal
Summary Of Dep't Of Taxation V. Kawahara., 131 Nev. Adv. Op. 42 (June 25, 2015), Janine Lee
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
A recorded tax lien has the effect of a judgment lien under NRS 360.473(2) and therefore, cannot have the effect or priority of a mortgage lien. The common law rule of “first in time, first in right” applies to lien priority when a valid deed of trust is attached to a property, thus creating a security interest, prior to the recording of a tax lien; even if not recorded until after the tax lien.
Sustaining Neighborhoods Of Choice: From Land Bank(Ing) To Land Trust(Ing),
2015
Notre Dame Law School
Sustaining Neighborhoods Of Choice: From Land Bank(Ing) To Land Trust(Ing), James J. Kelly Jr.
Journal Articles
This essay is based on my closing presentation at the Washburn Law Journal's 2015 symposium entitled “The Future of Housing -- Equity, Stability and Sustainability.” It explores how land banks and land trusts promote social goods, including socioeconomic integration, by connecting with and shielding against, respectively, market forces. Both engage in stewardship of land. Land banks take temporary ownership of vacant, abandoned properties in order to make them available for productive use. Land trusts hold land indefinitely to ensure a social purpose is met. Community land trusts hold land for a purpose that is responsive to the human environment, often …
How To Kill A Zombie: Strategies For Dealing With The Aftermath Of The Foreclosure Crisis,
2015
Notre Dame Law School
How To Kill A Zombie: Strategies For Dealing With The Aftermath Of The Foreclosure Crisis, Judith L. Fox
Journal Articles
The foreclosure crisis which began in 2008 is old news; or is it? A lot of attention has been paid to the plight of homeowners struggling to save their homes from foreclosure. Legislative and regulatory changes have made it easier for homeowners to navigate the loss mitigation process. A significant number of people, however, did not try to save their homes. In fact, some actively tried unsuccessfully to give the homes back to their lender. These abandoned homes and abandoned foreclosures have become zombie mortgages. This is the legacy of this crisis.
The existence of these homes is well documented …
Exposing The Hocus Pocus Of Trusts,
2015
The University of Akron
Exposing The Hocus Pocus Of Trusts, Kent D. Schenkel
Akron Law Review
Part II makes the conceptual case for viewing the trust as an elective cost-externalization device. Part III offers the spendthrift trust as the archetypal model for purposes of our analysis, briefly describes the spendthrift trust, and explores its consequences to outsiders to the trust deal. Part IV offers some reasons why the elective externalities of trusts persist. Part V first examines and rejects a couple of approaches to minimizing the externalized costs of trusts that rely on the “bundle of sticks” approach to property interests. It then moves beyond the bundle of sticks approach, settling on a solution based on …
Begone, Euclid!: Leasing Custom And Zoning Provision Engaging Retail Consumer Tastes And Technologies In Thriving Urban Centers,
2015
Arizona Summit Law School
Begone, Euclid!: Leasing Custom And Zoning Provision Engaging Retail Consumer Tastes And Technologies In Thriving Urban Centers, Michael N. Widener
Pace Law Review
Is urban center retailing in a death spiral? Competition for consumers with Internet vendors is afoot; winners and losers shall be anointed. The threats to physical retailing in an era of the “Internet of Goods” initially are described below. Adaptations by tenants, landlords, and stakeholders in urban centers will be required quickly, and new perspectives and partnerships, including those among local and regional governments, are instrumental if physical retail operations in municipal cores are to survive. The balance of this article describes these needs from the vantage point of each stakeholder; but this article argues that integrating information and communication …
