Buyers seeking to back out of a purchase contract after all contingencies have been removed is one of the matters we see the most in our office. This is not surprising, given the crazy Bay Area real estate market and the fact that so many of the offers made are non-contingent, made on very short…
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This edition of the Tales from the Trenches podcast features special guest Arden Dalik, a senior advisor in the Calgary office of Global Governance Advisors. Her Tale concerns a real estate investment project in Alberta presented to the REIN Group by a REIN member. Quite a number of REIN members invested in the project, including…
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Another week and another Newsround, let’s see what has caught the eye of the team this week. Concern grows over courts’ ability to cope A report out this week by the parliamentary committee that oversees the Ministry of Justice claims that the County Courts is ‘failing to deliver civil justice’. Statistics show that landlords are…
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In a significant win for a church, a United States District Court in Texas recently issued a decisive ruling in First Baptist Church of Sour Lake v. Church Mutual Insurance Company. 1 The case centered on an insurance coverage dispute involving a reduction in policy limits without adequate notice, and the outcome reinforces key consumer protections…
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THE U.S. SUPREME COURT City and County of San Francisco v. EPA (March 4, 2025)In the first major environmental decision by the Court in the 2024 Term, the Court’s analysis of the Clean Water Act concluded that there was no provision in the Act supporting the imposition by EPA of an ambiguous water quality standard….
As we have discussed in several of our firm articles, tenant protection laws have changed drastically in California over the years. Along with the changes brought on by the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, California also altered fair housing laws that went into effect beginning January 1, 2020. Specifically, Senate Bill 329 changed the definition…
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Contracts of Assignment, usually just called an ‘Assignment,’ are useful ways of making money with real estate. I’ve talked about them before (e.g., this blog and this video), but they’re worth revisiting in more detail because of their significance to the Canadian market. Sometimes known as ‘flipping’ a property, this is Part I of a…
Buying or selling a business is a major transaction that requires careful planning, clear communication, and proper legal documentation. While most people focus on the final Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) or Asset Purchase Agreement (APA), an often overlooked but critical first step is the Letter of Intent (LOI), which lays the groundwork before the SPA…
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Insurance agent negligence cases are rarely easy. A recent decision offers valuable insight into how insurance agent negligence claims play out when organizations misunderstand the scope of their insurance coverage. 1 This lawsuit arose after the Piatt Lake Bible Conference Association’s “Miracle Building,” a multipurpose structure at a remote youth camp in Michigan, collapsed under the…
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The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on May 30 that it will invoke emergency permitting procedures to accelerate environmental review of select geothermal energy projects, with three proposed geothermal projects in Nevada to be among the first projects to undergo expedited review. This action follows President Trump’s January 20, 2025, executive order declaring…
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