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McNairy v. C.K. Realty

Injury & Tort Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In landlord-tenant dispute, damages for emotional distress are available under former Civil Code section 1942.4(b)(1).

Blackmore v. Powell

Construction, Property Law & Real Estate
In declaratory relief action alleging that plaintiff was entitled to build a garage on an easement appurtenant to his property, and for other relief,...

Seaford Golf & Country Club v. E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.

Contracts, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute concerning whether certain property that a country club purchased and leased from duPont remained subject to a deed restriction and a...

Orkin v. Taylor

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Entertainment Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an action brought by descendants of a Jewish art collector claiming that she was wrongfully dispossessed of a van Gogh painting during Hitler's...

Betz v. Trainer Wortham & Co., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Securities Law
Once there exists sufficient indicia of fraud to cause a reasonable investor to inquire into whether he or she has been defrauded, the statute of...

First Merit Realty Services, Inc. v. Amerly Square Apartments, LP

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Property Law & Real Estate
A judgment affirming an arbitration award for plaintiffs arising out of defendant's termination of the property management contracts between the...

Cal. State Parks Found. v. Superior Ct. (Foothill/Eastern Transp. Corridor Agency)

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In suit challenging certification of an environmental impact report for, and the decision approving construction of, a toll road traversing portions...

Household Bank v. Lewis

Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
An order vacating the judicial mortgage foreclosure sale of property to intervenor after plaintiff obtained a leave to withdraw its motion to approve...

Baxter v. Peterson

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute over an oral agreement to lease a house for two years, for tenant to renovate the house at his own expense, and for tenant to have the...

Sherman v. Harbin

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
A bankruptcy court considering the feasibility of a plan of reorganization under 11 U.S.C. section 1129(a)(11) must evaluate the possible effect of a...