The parties’ commercial lease did not allow the plaintiff-tenant to renew the lease, yet plaintiff’s complaint challenged only the defendant-landlord’s actions following the expiration of the lease term (i.e., the landlord’s repossession and demolition of the asbestos-contaminated premises). Although the ...

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Even though the defendant-tenant’s 17-year-old son was a mile from their apartment when he committed an armed robbery, the plaintiff-housing authority could still find that the son’s activities posed a threat to the health, safety or right to peaceful enjoyment ...

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A joint tenancy with a right of survivorship was not severed by the signing of a purchase agreement, allowing one party to keep all the proceeds from a sale after the death of the other owner, a panel of the ...

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BY MICHELLE L. BOUTON BridgeTower Media Newswires The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, the economy, and our daily lives have been both widespread and unexpected. Who could have anticipated that this is what things would look like ...

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By Andy Owens [email protected] Even with the state slowly reopening, the coronavirus pandemic has rendered certain commercial space less valuable for many small businesses, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay your rent, attorneys are finding themselves increasingly ...

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  A York County jury has awarded a verdict in favor of a woman who says that her late brother’s landlord discarded his possessions after he died instead of offering them to his family. Although the monetary award was small, ...

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Zoroastrian Center & Darb-E-Mehr of Metropolitan Washington D.C. v. Rustam Guiv Foundation of New York (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-088-16, 33 pp.) (Agee, J.) No. 14-1841, May 4, 2016; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (O’Grady, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: In a charitable ...

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Elderberry of Weber City LLC v. Living Centers – Southeast Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-138-15, 23 pp.) (Gregory, J.) No. 13-2176, July 21, 2015; USDC at Lynchburg, Va. (Moon) 4th Cir. Holding: In this litigation involving a nursing home lease, ...

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Bluffton Towne Center, LLC v. Gilleland-Prince (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-053-15, 16 pp.) (H. Bruce Williams, J.) Appealed from Beaufort County (Marvin Dukes III, Master-in-Equity) Substituted opinion. S.C. App. Holding: The defendant-tenant had already abandoned the leased premises when the plaintiff-landlord ...

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Atlantic Coast Builders & Contractors, LLC v. Lewis The master in equity found for the plaintiff-tenant on three causes of action – negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment – but the defendant-landlord appealed only the findings of liability for negligent misrepresentation and breach of contract and not the finding of liability for unjust enrichment.

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