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The End Of The Hudson Valley's Peculiar Institution: The Anti-Rent Movement's Politics, Social Relations, & Economics, Eric Kades

Faculty Publications

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Why Craft Isn't Scary, Steve R. Johnson

Scholarly Publications

In April 2002, the Supreme Court of the United States decided United States v. Craft. The Court held that the federal tax lien attaches to a tax-debtor spouse’s interest in property held in tenancy by the entirety even when the other spouse does not owe tax and state law provides that entireties property and interests cannot be reached by separate creditors of only one spouse.

Craft was correctly decided. The older, contrary view that Craft displaced was fundamentally at odds with federal tax collection analysis as laid out by the Court. In addition, the old view invited tax abuse and …

Drawing The Line Between Taxes And Takings: The Continuous Burdens Principle, And Its Broader Application, Eric Kades

Faculty Publications

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The Phenomenon Of Substitution And The Statute Quia Emptores, Ronald B. Brown

Faculty Scholarship

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U.S. Supreme Court Hands Two Big Wins To Municipal Governments In 2001-2002 Term, Patricia E. Salkin

Scholarly Works

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Euclid Lives: The Survival Of Progressive Jurisprudence, Charles M. Haara, Michael Allan Wolf

UF Law Faculty Publications

The Supreme Court's expanded use of regulatory takings is making a highly controversial and confusing concept more difficult to apply and defend. The Court and commentators are invited to explore a different approach-- Progressive jurisprudence, as represented by the Court's enduring opinion in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co . This Commentary examines the reinvigoration of the Takings Clause and, in historical and ideological terms, discusses the Progressiveness of Euclid and of the regulatory scheme the Euclid Court approved. Professors Haar and Wolf identify and explore five inquiries concerning the character of regulations affecting the use, ownership, and value …

Summit Financial Holdings Redux, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article analyzes the California case Summit Financial Holdings v. Continental Lawyers where the borrower continues to make payments to the lender after it has assigned the note to a third person.

The Yield Spread Premium Controversy, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses yield spread premiums and the split among the courts as to their validity under RESPA.

Characterizing Separate Or Community Expenditures On Community Or Separate Assets, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article analyzes community property and separate property distributions on dissolution of marriage in California.

Electronic Real Estate Records: A Model For Action, Arthur R. Gaudio

Faculty Scholarship

The legal, technological, and structural components are in place to allow the legal community to embark on the process of creating a uniform real property recording act. Certain jurisdictions have started the process by adopting various provisions allowing counties to implement electronic recording systems. These provisions are, however, disparate and inconsistent. Given the inconsistencies in the manner in which the electronic recording systems are developing, national commercial and lending practices would have a difficult time attempting to comply with all the possible permutations. In the near future, Fannie Mae, the Property Records Industry Association, and the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance …

Disestablishmentarianism Collides With The First Amendment: The Ghost Of Thomas Jefferson Still Haunts Churches, Mathew D. Staver, Anita L. Staver

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This history of church-state relations in the Commonwealth of Virginia date back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Efforts by Jefferson and others to disestablish the state church may be likened to an army conquering a foreign enemy. The state established church was viewed as a remnant of the British government. Disestablishment was considered to be part of the ongoing Revolution. As this article will show, the methods of disestablishment included prohibiting the incorporation of churches, confiscating property, and limiting the amount of real and personal property that churches may own.

Electronic Real Estate Documents: Context, Unresolved Cost-Benefit Issues And A Recommended Decisional Process, Sam Stonefield

Faculty Scholarship

This essay begins with a prediction: that electronic real estate documents will soon begin to replace paper documents in many, if not all, phases of residential real estate transactions. It describes the costs and benefits of electronic documents, and the many forces supporting and impeding their widespread adoption. It concludes by urging all those participating in the process to use their best efforts to address the obstacles and to work towards a successful transition to a world of electronic real estate transactions and electronic recording.

(When) Am Imy Borrower’S Keeper? Good Faith And Loan Workouts, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article deals with a California case involving alleged predatory lending and analyzes the duty of fair dealing and why lenders prefer an objective reasonableness standard to that of subjective good faith.

Exactions And Takings: San Remo Hotel V San Francisco, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California Supreme Court decision which upheld an ordinance imposing the full cost of creating a replacement unit elsewhere on the property owner who wanted to covert a residential unit into a tourist unit.

Landlord Tort Liability: White V Contreras, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held a landlord who covenants or undertakes to install a window screen—but fails to do so—may be liable to the tenant’s child who falls out the window.

Liens Reattaching After Foreclosure: Dmc V Downey Sav. & Loan, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held that when a former property owner reacquires it after foreclosure with a new purchase money loan, that lien has priority over the previously wiped-out junior lien that reattached to the property.

Nonrefundable Option Payments As Liquidated Damages: Allen V Smith, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held a residential purchase agreement labelling the buyer’s deposit as “nonrefundable purchase option” is unenforceable.

Recorded Notices That Are Not Burdens On Title: Elysian Inv. Group V Stewart Title. 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held that a recorded notice that a residence was “substandard” was neither a defect in, nor a lien or encumbrance on the title under the title insurance policy.

Termination Of Partnership: Crow Irvine #2 V Winthrop Cal. Investors, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held that a termination clause in a partnership agreement requiring a good faith belief in irreconcilable difference between partners, is measured by a subjective standard, not an objective standard.

Palazzolo V. Rhode Island: Takings, Investment-Backed Expectations, And Slander Of Title, Garrett Power

Faculty Scholarship

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Comparing The Two Legal Realisms—American And Scandinavian, Gregory S. Alexander

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Zoning, Taking, And Dealing: The Problems And Promise Of Bargaining In Land Use Planning, Erin Ryan

Faculty Publications

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Are We There Yet? The Case For A Uniform Electronic Recording Act, Dale A. Whitman

Faculty Publications

To implement digital recording, a confluence of several factors is necessary: political will on the part of the public officials involved (recorders and their political masters, usually county commissioners or supervisors), legal authority, and budgets adequate to the task. Without all of these factors, little progress is likely.

Problem Of Unraveling: Biodiversity And Private Property In Land, Dale Goble

Articles

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Incomplete Compensation For Takings, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

If a tribunal determines that a state actor has expropriated foreign investment property, or, under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), that a state actor has adopted a regulation that is "tantamount to" an expropriation of foreign investment property, then that tribunal must determine the amount of compensation owed. International law has developed methods to determine the size of a compensation award when a state formally expropriates property. But the notion, reflected in Chapter 11 of NAFTA, that states may be required to pay compensation to foreign investors for what are, in effect, regulatory takings, is …

Property In Writing, Property On The Ground: Pigs, Horses, Land, And Citizenship In The Aftermath Of Slavery, Cuba, 1880-1909, Rebecca J. Scott, Michael Zeuske

Articles

In the most literal sense, the abolition of slavery marks the moment when one human being cannot be held as property by another human being, for it ends the juridical conceit of a "person with a price." At the same time, the aftermath of emancipation forcibly reminds us that property as a concept rests on relations among human beings, not just between people and things. The end of slavery finds former masters losing possession of persons, and former slaves acquiring it. But it also finds other resources being claimed and contested, including land, tools, and animals-resources that have shaped former …

Gendered Shades Of Property: A Status Check On Gender, Race & Property, Laura M. Padilla

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores the relationship between gender, race and property.Women in the United States continue to be economically disadvantaged, and women of color are even more disadvantaged. This article will open with a review of laws, past and present, which have shaped women's rights to own, manage and transfer property. It will then provide a status check of where women, including women of color, stand in the United States relative to the rest of the population vis-a-vis income and other indicators of economic well-being. The article will then discuss why economic inequality persists, trotting out the usual reasons of discrimination …

Pliability Rules, Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky

All Faculty Scholarship

In 1543, the Polish astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus, determined the heliocentric design of the solar system. Copernicus was motivated in large part by the conviction that Claudius Ptolemy's geocentric astronomical model, which dominated scientific thought at that time, was too incoherent, complex, and convoluted to be true. Hence, Copernicus made a point of making his model coherent, simple, and elegant. Nearly three and a half centuries later, at the height of the impressionist movement, the French painter Claude Monet set out to depict the Ruen Cathedral in a series of twenty paintings, each presenting the cathedral in a different light. Monet's …

The Extent Of Protection Of The Individual’S Personality Against Commercial Use: Toward A New Property Right, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

The purpose of this Article is to explore the extent of an individual's right of privacy, vis-à-vis the concepts of commercial use and appropriations, which compromise rights of publicity. The deceptively simple, yet complex, conclusion to be drawn from this analysis is that a delicate balance of interests must be struck, either legislatively or judicially, between recognizing a full right of privacy, and its permutations in the right of publicity, with the press and news media. A definitive balancing test may be elusive, but at a minimum, a framework for principled decision making must be attempted. It is imperative that …

Using The Pervasive Method Of Teaching Legal Ethics In A Property Course, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The first-year introductory course in property law is about all that is left of the traditional black-box curriculum. It is where beginning law students cope with and despair of the arcana of English common law; where, with more detachment than, say, in the torts course, analysis of appellate opinions is what "thinking like a lawyer" means, with no more than peripheral and begrudging attention to modem legislation and administrative law; where legal reasoning is a stretching exercise and initiatory discipline. And, incidentally, surviving bravely the rude invasion of teachers of public law, it is where a teaching lawyer can point …