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A really, really interesting co-op lawsuit

From Friday’s Daily News, with the headline “Co-op board voids ‘steal’ at auction”: Linda Salamon thought she won the real estate lottery last May when she bought a $400,000 one-bedroom co-op apartment on the lower East Side for $33,000 at … Continue reading

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109 square feet @ $1376 per

Remember that lawsuit I mentioned? Couple buy Bklyn apartment, claim it’s 109 square feet less than they thought, they sue? Remember that? The lawsuit, which nestles ever so nicely into three areas of this blog (real estate, lawsuits over real … Continue reading

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How I became a plaintiff: Mistakes I made

The statute should be comprehensible.  It should not be written in Chinese anyway. It should be in passing English…so that common, human beings would understand what it meant… – Clarence Darrow, in Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, 1925. Let me … Continue reading

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