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US v. Jarvis

Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure, Debt Collection, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a matter involving the propriety of two notices of lis pendens filed under New Mexico state law by the United States on substitute property...

Friends of Lagoon Valley v. Vacaville

Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In challenge to approval of a project to develop a portion of Vacaville known as the Lower Lagoon Valley, denial of petition for writ of mandate is...

Consol. Cos. Inc. v. Union Pac. R.R. Co.

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
In an action brought by a property owner against a railroad company arising from alleged contamination of the property by railroad operations, an...

Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Wilcox

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a coverage dispute over certain property damage, summary judgment for insurer based on a finding that the property was vacant and unoccupied for...

Gaines v. Kelly

Banking Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit brought claiming breach of contract, fraud, and negligence, based on allegations that defendants' failure to fund a loan caused plaintiff...

Central Coast Baptist Ass'n v. First Baptist Church of L.A.

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In case involving an action by plaintiff church association against a member church and another church over an alleged takeover, judgment for...

WRI Opportunity Loans II LLC v. Cooper

Banking Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In action for payment of a loan guaranteed by defendants, summary judgment for plaintiff is reversed where plaintiff's challenges to defendants' usury...

Estate of Thompson v. Comm'r of Internal Rev.

Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
Judgment of tax court valuing an estate's interest in a closely held company and declining to impose an underpayment penalty against petitioners is...

Smith v. Insley's, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case against a towing company arising from its sale of plaintiff's car after he had been imprisoned and the car towed,...

Patel v. Liebermensch

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In suit for specific performance of an option contract to buy property, judgment for plaintiff is reversed as the trial court incorrectly construed...