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Catching up on recent lawsuits

If I hadn’t had a really bad cold virus (the new ones are jolly: they have migrated from double-dipping to three-peats), I’d be up to date. Instead, I’m catching up. While coughing. (I can highly recommend Kleenex’s extra soft tissue. … Continue reading

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“A Judicial About-Face, Grudging but Rare, In a Bias Case”

That’s the New York Times headline for an Adam Liptak Sidebar (the name of his legal column) and I used it because it’s a slamming head and says so much about the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, … Continue reading

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Another tenant-landlord legal battle

Yesterday the Daily News reported that a number of tenants in a Jamaica building are suing their landlord, “for charging them large lump sums for building improvements they claim were never adequately made and were an effort to force them … Continue reading

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