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BENNETT v. HIDDEN VALLEY GOLF & SKI, INC.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Sports Law
Under Missouri law, a voluntary skier assumes the risks inherent in or incidental to skiing, regardless of subjective knowledge of those risks....

APPLE COMPUTER, INC. v. COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA ASSESSMENT APPEALS BD. (STONE)

Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
The trial court did not err 1) in ordering the county assessor to complete an audit before issuing the statutorily mandated findings and notices, in...

PORTLAND NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION SYS. v. 19.2 ACRES OF LAND

Constitutional Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The district court properly calculated the amount of compensation due under Massachusetts law after plaintiff took, by eminent domain, temporary and...

DISCOVERY HOUSE, INC. v. CONSOL. CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
A for-profit drug addiction rehabilitation program operator did not have standing to seek lost profits, under the ADA or the Rehabilitation Act, for a...

JOHNSON v. US

Constitutional Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A shareholder in a corporation had no standing to bring a Fifth Amendment takings claim before the Court of Federal Claims, where he did not maintain...

ALLSTATE INS. CO. v. MENARDS, INC.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The applicable statute of limitations in Illinois, for an action for damages to property based on the doctrine of strict liability in tort brought...

PEOPLE v. LAW

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
On its face, section 6-16(c) of the Liquor Control Act of 1934, which prohibits certain occupants of residences from allowing persons under 21 to...

WASHOE COUNTY v. US

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The federal government's actions in denying a county's right-of-way permit application constituted neither a physical nor a regulatory taking of...

COHEN DEV. CO. v. JMJ PROPS., INC.

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
Parties did not intend to enter into a binding agreement, for acquisition of land, via an exchange of letters, and the letters did not comply with...

NEMARIAM v. THE FED. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHOPIA

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of a suit against Ethiopia, seeking recovery for property damage suffered during a border war, is reversed as the Ethiopia/Eritrea Claims...