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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth Court Finds Proposed Sale of Unused Park Land Violates the DDPA

Recently, in the case of In re Township of Jackson, 280 A.3d 1074 (Pa. Cmwlth, 2022), the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court revisited several seminal cases interpreting the DDPA to consider whether the orphan's court had properly denied the petition of Jackson Township, Lebanon County, to sell a parcel donated to the township for use as a public park.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Returns $5.85M Verdict to Family in 12-Year Eminent Domain Dispute

The verdict matched the exact value the plaintiff presented the jury, and the full award is set to amount to around $7.5 million with statutory interest tacked on, according to David Snyder, a partner at Fox Rothschild who represented the plaintiffs.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Increased Competition Is Causing Attorneys to Implement 'Creative Strategies' in Transactional Work

"An attorney can add value to a transaction by making introductions, thereby bringing more resources to the table for a client. The idea is to be the bridge between the parties and potentially end up representing the entity involved in the new transaction."
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Climate Change Is Generating New Legal and Insurance Issues

"I think we're going to find ourselves with quite a bit of litigation over the next 10 to 30 years because of property owners alleging that another property owner has adversely affected the usability of their property, or potentially that their view or vista has been impeded because of infrastructure."
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott Mollen discusses the land use case "South St. Seaport Coalition v. City of New York," where the court denied a petition challenging development in a historic district.
18 minute read

Daily Report Online

Climate Change Is a Business Issue For Law Firms. Here's How to Prepare

In the long run, it's going to get more expensive to develop real estate in low-lying areas or anywhere susceptible to sea level rise, according to experts.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott Mollen discusses the land use case, "301 E. 66th Condominium Corp. v. City of New York," and a foreclosure action, "Majestic Holdings v. Wilmington Sav. Fund Socy."
13 minute read

Daily Business Review

The Next Generation of Attorneys Are Studying Environmental Law

"People are coming with that on the top of their list, whereas before we had very few or we had people who got here and then learned about the topic," said one environmental law professor at the University of Miami.
12 minute read

Daily Business Review

'It's a Big Problem': The Insurance Industry Is the Harbinger of South Florida's Climate Change Risks

"If there's a direct-hit Category 5 storm that hits Miami, you're going to see 20 insurance companies go bankrupt and are not going to be able to pay claims. It's become a big problem," said South Florida insurance broker Joseph Gendelman.
12 minute read

Daily Business Review

South Florida's Business Leaders Could Become Global Pioneers in Climate Change Adaptation. Here's How

"Can Miami not only rise to the occasion, pardon the pun, to address sea level rise for our own sustainability, but could we in fact become a transformative community that becomes a leader in mitigating these problems for the world?"
9 minute read

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