News

Construction

[07/28] M/I Homes Reports Second Quarter Results
[07/28] Vecor Group Green Building Materials: Asian Innovation Award Finalists
[07/27] Mid-Atlantic Waterproofing Donates $41,000 to Doctors Without Borders

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Corporate Finance

[07/29] Small business lending bill founders in Senate
[07/28] Webster Provides Credit Enhancement for $20,185,000 CHEFA Bond Financing to Hospital for Special Care
[07/28] PMI Foundation Awards $50,000 Grant to Consumer Credit Counseling Service of San Francisco

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Real Estate

[07/29] Mack-Cali Realty Corporation Announces Second Quarter Results
[07/29] AP survey: A bleaker outlook for economy into 2011
[07/29] Foreclosure activity up across most US metro areas

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Case Summaries

Probate Trusts

[06/25] Greenspan v. LADT, LLC
In a trust's suit for breach of contract and other claims against two affiliated companies and individuals, trial court's confirmation of an arbitrator's award against defendants in the amount of $6.34 million is affirmed where: 1) per the JAMS rules, the arbitrator, not a court, determines what issues are arbitrable, and here, the arbitrator determined that the issue of joint and several liability was arbitrable; 2) arbitrator's finding of joint and several liability was rationally related to the parties' contract; 3) as to the timeliness of the final award under JAMS rules, the arbitrator's interpretation and application of the rules cannot be judicially reviewed on the merits; and 4) the suit against the arbitrator was barred by arbitral immunity and would not have caused a reasonable person to doubt the arbitrator's impartiality.

[06/22] Jay E. Hayden Found. v. First Neighbor Bank, NA
In a RICO suit against a bank, two law firms, and affiliated individuals, grant of defendants' motion to dismiss on the ground that the complaint itself showed that plaintiffs had missed the four-year deadline governing RICO suits is affirmed as, by the summer of 2003 at the latest, the plaintiffs knew that a lawyer had looted the estate and that bank's employees were trying to prevent further investigation of the lawyer.

[06/17] Estate of Charania v. Shulman
In a tax deficiency case, the judgment of the tax court is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) the tax court's judgment that all of the Citigroup shares were the separate property of the decedent for federal estate tax purposes and, thus, were includable in his gross taxable estate is affirmed, as the rule of De Nicols is that a change in marital domicile does not, in itself, effect a change in the marital property regime governing the spouses' rights in personal property acquired throughout the course of the marriage; but 2) the tax court's approbation of the late-filing penalty was in error and is therefore reversed.

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