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Advancing Environmental Justice Norms, Clifford Rechtschaffen
Advancing Environmental Justice Norms, Clifford Rechtschaffen
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Part I of this Article provides brief background on the environmental justice movement. Part 11 generally describes some of the challenges that environmental justice principles pose for the traditional environmental decision-making paradigm. Part III presents several specific examples of how environmental justice norms can be incorporated to improve the ethical outcomes of traditional agency decision making.
The Lessened Lis Pendens, Roger Bernhardt
The Lessened Lis Pendens, Roger Bernhardt
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This article warns attorneys to advise their clients to think twice before recording that lis pendens. Two California cases demonstrate that attempts to obtain a lis pendens may be worse than ineffective, and quite dangerous, leading to liability for attorney fees and compensatory and punitive damages.
Tips From An Appellate Lawyer, Myron Moskovitz
Balancing The Automatic Stay, Roger Bernhardt, James Stillman
Balancing The Automatic Stay, Roger Bernhardt, James Stillman
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This article discusses a Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel decision holding that purchasers at a trustee sale can successfully have the stay that originally prohibited the sale annulled if the court finds that the equities are in their favor.
Failing Grade: Our Irrelevant Bar Exam, Roger Bernhardt
Failing Grade: Our Irrelevant Bar Exam, Roger Bernhardt
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This article criticizes the California Bar Exam’s testing of real property. The author argues that the Exam fails to test modern issues relevant to everyday practice.
Making Sense Out Of Insurance, Condemnation, And Settlement Clauses In Deeds Of Trust, Roger Bernhardt
Making Sense Out Of Insurance, Condemnation, And Settlement Clauses In Deeds Of Trust, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case that held that moneys received by trustors in settlement of their damage claims against a contractor need not be turned over to their lender pursuant to their deed of trust, but concludes that other court are not likely to agree with the holding that “owed” means “amounts currently due and payable” instead of principal balance, and that lenders will probably revise their forms to escape that reasoning..
Nature Of The Beast: An Introduction To The Issue, Paul Stanton Kibel
Nature Of The Beast: An Introduction To The Issue, Paul Stanton Kibel
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No abstract provided.
The Disturbed Subtenant Roger Bernhardt, Roger Bernhardt
The Disturbed Subtenant Roger Bernhardt, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses the advantages of a nondistrubance and attornment provision in a lease. An NDA clause benefits the both the subtenant and landlord and may help a tenant attract subtenants. It gives security to subtenants that if the tenant declares bankruptcy the subleases will remain intact. The landlord benefits because it eliminates the need to find new tenants.
Help For Youths Leaving Foster Care, Michele Benedetto Neitz
Help For Youths Leaving Foster Care, Michele Benedetto Neitz
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No abstract provided.
My Father Is A Woman, Oh No!: The Failure Of The Courts To Uphold Individual Substantive Due Process Rights For Transgender Parents Under The Guise Of The Best Interests Of The Child, Helen Chang
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Under the guise of the "best interest of the child," courts have denied biological and legal parents both custody and visitation rights over their children because these parents were either in the process of changing, or had completed a change, in their sexual and/or gender identity. One court has even terminated the parent-child relationship because of a parent's transgender status. This article proposes that a parent's transgender status does not render that parent per se unfit for custody and/or visitation. Rather, a parent's gender change should be used as merely one factor within the nexus test used by the court …
Broker Buying And Then Reselling: Roberts V Lomanto, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Broker Buying And Then Reselling: Roberts V Lomanto, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that a seller’s real estate agent breached her fiduciary duty when she contracted to purchase the property, assigned the contract to a third party buyer, and refused to disclose to the seller the amount of the assignment fee or third party buyer’s purchase price.
Conflict Of Interest From Preparing Note Used By Client: Hetos Invs., Ltd. V Kurtin, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Conflict Of Interest From Preparing Note Used By Client: Hetos Invs., Ltd. V Kurtin, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that a law firm not barred from representing its client in a lawsuit contending that a promissory note it prepared on the client’s behalf was usurious under California law.
Dragnet Clauses: Fischer V First Int’L Bank, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Dragnet Clauses: Fischer V First Int’L Bank, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that a boilerplate “dragnet” clause in a deed of trust did not defeat the borrower’s claim that the bank’s other loans to the borrower were not cross-collateralized.
Foreclosure Purchaser Vs Late Redeeming Owner: Nguyen V Calhoun, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Foreclosure Purchaser Vs Late Redeeming Owner: Nguyen V Calhoun, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that a purchaser at a foreclosure sale acquires good title to property, despite the defaulting borrower’s sale of the property on the same day, when the lender did not receive the payoff funds until after the foreclosure sale.
Frustrated High Bidders At Void Foreclosure Sales: Residential Capital V Cal-W. Reconveyance, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Frustrated High Bidders At Void Foreclosure Sales: Residential Capital V Cal-W. Reconveyance, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that a high bidder at a foreclosure sale, who is later denied a trustee’s deed because of a defect discovered after its bid was accepted, has no claim to the “benefit of the bargain” damages.
Interference With Contract And The “Manager’S Privilege”: Huynh V Vu, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Interference With Contract And The “Manager’S Privilege”: Huynh V Vu, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that, in an action by a broker against a seller’s husband, who managed the seller’s property, for tortious inference, the husband was entitled to assert the defense of “manager’s privilege.”
Landlord’S Construction Of Defective Tenant Improvements: Del Taco V University Real Estate, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Landlord’S Construction Of Defective Tenant Improvements: Del Taco V University Real Estate, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held the transfer of property relieved a former lessor of liability to the lessee because the sale of the property terminated privity of estate.
Late Payment Penalties In Leases: Harbor Island Holdings V Kim, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Late Payment Penalties In Leases: Harbor Island Holdings V Kim, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held a provision of a commercial lease doubling rent in the event of breach by the tenant was an unenforceable penalty.
Liquidated Damage Provisions In Sales Contracts: Timney V Lin, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Liquidated Damage Provisions In Sales Contracts: Timney V Lin, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held a provision providing for forfeiture of buyer’s deposit was unenforceable even when included in a settlement agreement.
Love Your Husband – But Don’T Lend Him Money, Roger Bernhardt
Love Your Husband – But Don’T Lend Him Money, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case where the husband’s note to his wife was held invalid for undue influence, and questions what unfair advantage means, its consequences, and how it can be rebutted.
Measure Of Liability For Broker Misrepresentation: Fragale V Faulkner, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Measure Of Liability For Broker Misrepresentation: Fragale V Faulkner, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that the measure of damages for a broker’s intentional misrepresentation to principal agent is not limited to the buyer’s out-of-pocket losses but may be measured by the benefit-of-the bargain rule.
Rent Control: Santa Monica Rent Control Bd. V Pearl Street, Llc, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Rent Control: Santa Monica Rent Control Bd. V Pearl Street, Llc, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that a rent control board’s suit alleging that a landlord was not entitled to charge market rate rents was not a SLAPP suit because it was based on the alleged charging of unlawful rent, not the landlord’s act of filing documents with the board.
Redeeming From Tax Sales: Bevan V Socal Communications Sites, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Redeeming From Tax Sales: Bevan V Socal Communications Sites, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a Ninth Circuit case which held that when a lienor forecloses on a debtor’s property that which is also subject to an IRS lien, the lienor will not be equitably subrogated to the IRS claim where it eliminates the IRS’s right of redemption by paying the IRS the amount owed by the debtor to it.
Retaliatory Withdrawals From Rental Housing Market: Drouet V Superior Court, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Retaliatory Withdrawals From Rental Housing Market: Drouet V Superior Court, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that in an unlawful detainer action, a landlord’s bona fide intent to withdraw the property from the rental market defeats the tenant’s claim of retaliatory eviction.
Seller’S Withdrawal For Buyer’S Late Performance: Ninety Nine Invs. V Overseas Courier Serv., 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Seller’S Withdrawal For Buyer’S Late Performance: Ninety Nine Invs. V Overseas Courier Serv., 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that a buyer was entitled to specific performance when the seller’s failure to comply with escrow instructions prevented the buyer’s timely performance of the financing condition.
The Undue Influence Presumption Vs The Record Title Presumption: Marriage Of Delaney, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
The Undue Influence Presumption Vs The Record Title Presumption: Marriage Of Delaney, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that when an interspousal transaction is to one spouse’s advantage, the Family Code presumption that the transaction was a result of undue influence is trumped by the Evidence Code’s presumption of record title.
A Return To Lilliput: The Licra V. Yahoo! Case And The Regulation Of Online Content In The World Market, Marc Greenberg
A Return To Lilliput: The Licra V. Yahoo! Case And The Regulation Of Online Content In The World Market, Marc Greenberg
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The first section of this Article presents the laws governing Internet content providers and the jurisdictional regime that gave rise to this see saw battle. The second section examines a series of court proceedings. The first two proceedings in France in 2000 resulted in a French court order directing Yahoo to add geo-location filtering software to its servers in Santa Clara. The subsequent California district court litigation filed in 2001 resulted in summary judgment for Yahoo. This judgment is on appeal. The third and final section explores the global implications of the French and U.S. proceedings. The section concludes that …
An Uneasy Peace: Multilateral Military Intervention In Civil Wars, Eleanor Lumsden
An Uneasy Peace: Multilateral Military Intervention In Civil Wars, Eleanor Lumsden
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This article will examine seven instances in which a group of states or regional organizations have intervened with military force in an ongoing civil war either because their interests were directly threatened or in order to avert grave humanitarian consequences. Parts I and II will define and explore the various permutations of multilateral and regional intervention. Part III will summarize the legal justifications advanced in favor of or against multilateral military intervention. Part IV will examine, through the use of country case studies, interventions where states either deviated from or ignored completely Article 2(4)'s prohibition against the use of force …
Les Criteres De L'Acte Jure Imperii Dans La Pratique Contemporaine, Sompong Sucharitkul
Les Criteres De L'Acte Jure Imperii Dans La Pratique Contemporaine, Sompong Sucharitkul
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Mémoire de DEA en droit international public Dirigé par M. le Professeur JOE VERHOEVEN.
When Is A Court "Punishing" Out-Of-State Conduct Rather Than Merely "Considering" Such Conduct?, Rachel A. Van Cleave
When Is A Court "Punishing" Out-Of-State Conduct Rather Than Merely "Considering" Such Conduct?, Rachel A. Van Cleave
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No abstract provided.