Sometimes the obvious still bears emphasis, even in the real estate litigation context.
If your ability to purchase a property hinges upon which your ability to get needed financing (which is often the case), you’d better make sure that this is memorialized in the contract. Otherwise, you could end up like the defendant in Abart Holdings [...]
It is a very sad day when you can’t trust your own brother.
According to the plaintiff in the Suffolk County case of Kimelstein v. Kimelstein, he was wrongfully frozen out of his 50% interest in a property that he and brother had acquired jointly through a non-party corporation. More specifically, he contends that pursuant to [...]
Although, as the title of this article suggests, some things should be fairly obvious, when enough money is at stake, people will still try to throw stuff at the wall to see if any of it will stick.
In a case that they brought in Federal Court in Upstate New York, Opto Generic Devices Inc. (“OGD”) [...]
If an at-will employee resigns before they are paid their commissions, they forfeit their right to collect them, right?
Absolutely not, held a New York County trial court.
In Nichols v. SG Partners, Inc., the plaintiffs were employed by defendant as placement professionals, earning both a base salary as well as a percentage of defendant’s revenues generated [...]
I have to believe that the executives at the plaintiff on-line news company are kicking themselves.
In Al-Bawaba.com, Inc. v. Nstein Tech. Corp., a decision that was discussed in last week’s New York Law Journal, a Kings trial court dismissed their lawsuit against a software company that sought more than $1 million in damages for the [...]