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Recent Legal Library Articles
42% of Real Estate Contracts did Not Comply with Law
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:17:49-05:00Wednesday, January 10th, 2007|Categories: Real Estate Law|
In a recent review of contracts for the sale of real estate in Maryland, 42% of the contracts were found not to comply with law. In the majority of instances, the defect in the contract made it voidable by the purchaser, but in nearly half ...
Court Rules that a Burrito is Not a Sandwich
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:17:50-05:00Friday, November 10th, 2006|Categories: Real Estate Law|
A Massachusetts court settled a ‘food fight’ between Panera Bread Co. and Qdoba Mexican Grill determining that a burrito is not a sandwich. This dispute arose from a 2001 lease, between Panera Bread Co. and the owners of the White City Shopping Center in Shrewsbury, ...
PUD Process In Baltimore County Is Innovative Approach To Land Use
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:16:50-05:00Tuesday, October 10th, 2006|Categories: Land Use Law|
Baltimore County’s updated and revised planned unit development (PUD) regulations offer an innovative approach to land use approvals. PUDs Defined PUDs are defined in a widely quoted New Jersey court decision as “getting away from the Euclidean principle of blocking out designated districts for specific ...
New Notice Requirement For Maryland Residential Real Estate Contracts
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:17:51-05:00Sunday, September 10th, 2006|Categories: Real Estate Law|
A contract of sale for residential real property in Maryland, entered into after October 1, 2006, must contain a certain statement notifying the buyer that the property may be located near a military installation that conducts certain military operations or testing. Accepting that real estate ...
Green Buildings Begin to Make Dollars and Sense
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:22:21-05:00Saturday, June 10th, 2006|Categories: Environmental Law|
Green Buildings are beginning to be environmentally sound investments as government provides the necessary incentives to advance the wider use of alternative “green” methods, buying down slightly higher up front construction costs that are often, again over time, recouped in reduced operating costs and additionally ...
Real Estate in the 2006 Maryland General Assembly Session
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:17:52-05:00Friday, April 14th, 2006|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The 2006 session of the Maryland General Assembly adjourned at midnight on Monday, April 10th. After consideration of 2,856 bills over 90 days before sine die, the legislature passed a total of 823 bills (489 Senate bills and 334 House bills), and maybe not surprisingly ...
Oregon’s Property Rights Law Portends Change for Maryland
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:16:52-05:00Friday, March 10th, 2006|Categories: Land Use Law|
The Oregon Supreme Court has just upheld a sweeping voter initiated measure that allows a property owner to seek compensation from the government if land use regulations reduce the value of their land. Given that Oregon’s land use laws are often cited as the philosophical ...
“All Appropriate Inquiries” Standard Finalized For Environmental Site Assessments
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:22:17-05:00Friday, February 10th, 2006|Categories: Environmental Law|
EPA has, at long last, established regulatory standards and practices for evaluating a property’s environmental conditions necessary to qualify for certain landowner liability protections under the Superfund law and, as such, it is now time to modify the scope of future Phase I Environmental Site ...




