August 17, 2022
The Court of Appeals: No to an Exclusive Implied Easement But Yes to an Exclusive Equitable Easement The California Court of Appeals has, it seems to me, muddled the law of boundaries and easements in their latest decision. In Romero v. Shih (2022) 78 Cal.App.5th …
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Airbnb is one of the biggest startup success stories to come out of San Francisco in years, and yet it and other similar short-term rental services have been engaged with the city in a legal battle in federal court since last summer over stringent new …
Read MoreThe move of the Rams football team from St. Louis to Los Angeles in 2016 was one of the biggest sports stories in Southern California in recent decades. Although the Rams initial 4-12 season was less than inspiring, millions of fans across the Los Angeles …
Read MoreIf “intentional misrepresentation” sounds like a slightly softer way of referring to a lie, fraud, or verbal act of deceit, well that is essentially what it is. In California, an intentional misrepresentation claim is the cause of action brought by a plaintiff who has been …
Read MoreA former vice president of sales for a leading San Francisco real estate company has provided numerous details about a real estate mortgage fraud scheme allegedly perpetrated by the company to pump up sales, and which has been the focus of a seven-year investigation by …
Read MoreWhen Delores McGinty created a special needs trust in 2006 on behalf of her daughter Kathleen, who suffers from autism, which included ownership of a 1,477 square foot home in Santa Monica, she no doubt wanted to provide for her daughter after her own death, …
Read MoreIn general, a party setting up shop for a business usually intends to stay there for longer than a few months, and commercial leases often extend much longer than a typical 1-year residential lease. But, of course, small businesses and startups go out of business …
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