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Should The Commercial Landlord Have A Duty To Mitigate Damages After The Tenant Abandons?: A Legal And Economic Analysis, David Crump
David Crump
When a commercial tenant abandons the premises, the landlord’s costs continue. Does the landlord, then, have the burden of mitigating damages for a suit against the tenant? Two different rules apply in different states. Some states, including Pennsylvania, put the burden of mitigation on the breaching party: the commercial tenant. Other states, however, put the burden entirely on the non-breaching party: the landlord. Texas follows this latter approach, placing the burden solely on the innocent party and not on the breaching party. The Texas rule, which puts the burden of mitigation on the non-breaching commercial landlord, has serious disadvantages. First, …
The Social Psychology Of Evil: Can The Law Prevent Groups From Making Good People Go Bad?, David Crump
The Social Psychology Of Evil: Can The Law Prevent Groups From Making Good People Go Bad?, David Crump
David Crump
In the year 2000, widespread official perjury by members of the Los Angeles Police Department led to investigations of nearly seventy officers and tainted hundreds of criminal convictions. A few years earlier, managers at Enron Corporation had tolerated and committed pervasive acts of fraud that lost billions of dollars for shareholders. And a few years later, jailers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq photographed each other abusing detainees in ways that subjected themselves to prosecution and the United States to severe loss of international credibility. In each instance, citizens reading their newspapers must have wondered, “How could these things happen?” …