A new set of ground rules for processing and approval of residential development projects has found its way into law and became effective January 1, 2020.
If an individual contracts COVID-19 after visiting a specific property, and the exposure of the COVID-19 is traced to that specific property, who is liable to the individual?
The recent case of Taniguchi v. Restoration Homes, LLC, on rehearing, held unenforceable a default clause in a loan modification agreement that purported to allow the lender to call due a deferred principal and interest balance if the borrower ever defaulted on the new, modified reduced payment schedule
With the enactment of Assembly Bill 1482, signed by Governor Newsom in October 2019, the California legislature imposed a “just cause” limitation on lease terminations, non-renewals, or evictions for most California residential landlords, and also imposed a cap on the amount of annual rent increases allowable for many of the same landlords.
In June, the United States Supreme Court dismantled what many considered to be an untenable “preclusion trap” in Fifth Amendment takings law when it decided Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania.
If a tenant receives a verbal assurance from a landlord while negotiating a lease, and the assurance is not written in the lease, does the tenant have any recourse if the assurance turns out to be false?