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The dictionary definition of "affiliated" may be narrower than you think. It only covers companies who are related by ownership. It does not cover persons who have some interest in common. As will become apparent, the thing affiliates have in common is that someone is...
In Westside Estate Agency, Inc. v Randall, released on December 1, 2016, the Los Angeles Court of Appeal held that a broker representing a buyer, who did not have a written representation or commission agreement with the buyer, could not collect a...
This morning, November 21, 2016, in a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court re-affirmed that when the real estate agent for the seller and the separate real estate agent for the buyer, both work for the same real estate brokerage company, then they both are...
If a borrower for a loan secured by commercial real property applies for the loan in the person's own name, the lender is likely to insist that the property and the loan be in the name of a Single-Purpose-Entity (SPE). The lender does this in order to qualify for...
From time to time I write about a new court decision of interest to real estate and construction professionals, and punctuate my comments with the observation that the courts are not stupid and cut through the technical and procedural to get to what is really just....
It has happened again. The trial court and the Court of Appeal in Los Angeles have upheld a $5.42 million jury verdict, where the business posted two security guards in its unisex bathroom area all night until very late, and as soon as they left their post, an...
MediMarts, Inc., a marijuana dispensary, sued the City of San Jose, to prevent it from enforcing its ordinance imposing its Marijuana Business Tax and requiring MediMarts to submit tax returns disclosing the amount of its sales of cannabis-containing-products, on the...
A person in Texas posts on the internet angry denunciations of a man in California, posts his address and the names of his wife and children, and encourages physical attacks on their persons and property. Can the man sue the person from Texas in California?The answer...
Your unlicensed contractor or handyman does not have workers compensation insurance. If the work requires a contractor's license, and your contractor doesn't have one, then you are the direct employer of the contractor and each of her employees. If you, the property...
The Court of Appeal for San Jose has held that borrowers could sue the lender and the buyer at a foreclosure sale to have the loan held to be unenforceable, where the loan required payments $1000.00 per month higher than the borrowers' monthly income. That the...