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Connecticut Law Tribune

Holler Wins National Leadership Award

Milford-based Holler Law Firm managing attorney George T. Holler received the October Research 2017 Leadership Award at the National Settlement Services Summit in San Antonio, Texas.
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Daily Business Review

Bilzin Sumberg Team Handles Scientology Church Sale

Two lawyers help a group purchase a Coral Gables property formerly occupied by the Church of Scientology of Florida.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Starling v. Lake Meade Prop. Owners Ass'n, Inc., PICS Case No. 17-0892 (Pa. May 25, 2017) Wecht, J.; Dougherty, J., concurring and dissenting. (46 pages).

Property owner did not have title to adjacent undesignated property in planned subdivision where the illustrated metes and bounds of the subdivision plan, which was the only ascertainable boundary to the owner's lot, did not encompass the undesignated property. Order of the superior court reversed.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Bad-Faith Ruling Vacated for Insufficient Record in Land Use Dispute

A trial court must have a sufficiently developed record in order to determine that a party has acted in bad faith in a dispute over a land development plan, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Cabinet Taps Florida Forever Fund for Conservation Deals

Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet agreed to use $15 million from the Florida Forever program to buy 407 acres in Gilchrist County — preserving a cluster of natural springs — and to protect 6,071 acres of agricultural land in Polk and Hardee counties.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Holland & Knight Team Takes Years to Engineer New Home for Amazon

The lawyers helped land an 800,000-square-foot facility in suburban Miami.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

EQT Prod. Co. v. Borough of Jefferson Hills, PICS Case No. 17-0867 (Pa. Commw. May 18, 2017) Leadbetter, S.J. (27 pages).

Trial court properly reversed the council's denial of applicants' conditional use application because applicants met the specific requirements of the ordinance and objectors' testimony was the kind of speculative evidence insufficient to constitute proof of detriments to health, safety and welfare exceeding those ordinarily to be expected from the proposed use. Affirmed and remanded.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Revives Strict Zoning for NYC Adult Businesses

Tough zoning rules for adult establishments in New York City do not violate the constitutional rights of affected businesses, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Delchester Developers, L.P. v. Zoning Hearing Bd. of the Twp. of London Grove, PICS Case No. 17-0847 (Pa. Commw. May 9, 2017) Colins, J. (40 pages)

"Net out" provision of stormwater management ordinance was not invalid exercise of municipality's police powers because the provision's clear intent was to protect public health, welfare and safety. Order of the trial court affirmed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Delchester Developers, L.P. v. London Grove Twp. Bd. of Supervisors, PICS Case No. 17-0846 (Pa. Commw. May 9, 2017) Colins, J. (21 pages).

Municipality properly denied land development plan application where, although certain grounds for denial were easily correctable technicalities, there were other clear, substantive issues of noncompliance that were unchallenged by applicant, which provided sufficient grounds for denial. Order of the trial court affirmed.
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