A Texas appellate court sided with a Dallas property owner in his nearly 20-year legal fight accusing the city of wrongfully blocking access to his property by demolishing a street abutting his land and allowing obstructive railroad construction, ruling that Texas law allowed the property owner to bring an injunction claim against the city.
The Chapter 7 trustee for real estate law firm Kossoff PLLC sued a real estate executive and the son of convicted real estate lawyer Mitchell H. Kossoff in New York bankruptcy court to recoup $2.1 million, alleging that Kossoff had wrongfully used the law firm's funds in several ways, such as paying his son's rent for an apartment owned by one of the executive's companies.
A New Jersey judge sided with a retirement community operator by preliminarily blocking a township's ordinance that requires health care companies to provide 24/7 ambulance services and also penalizes emergency ambulance calls for situations that don't require advanced life support.
A Washington federal judge on Friday appointed law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP as interim class counsel for 24 proposed class action suits that accuse property management software company RealPage Inc. and real estate companies of conspiring in a rent-fixing scheme for student housing.
A New York federal judge dismissed real estate broker Compass Inc.'s antitrust suit against trade association Real Estate Board of New York Inc. without prejudice, ruling that Compass' argument that the real estate market was becoming more competitive and other related lawsuits being resolved were "an adequate explanation for dismissal."