New HOA Law
Posted by admin on June 20th, 2006Jim Becker | KOLD News 13
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Twin Rivers battle now playing to larger audience
Posted by admin on June 10th, 2006By: Dick Brinster, Staff Writer
EAST WINDSOR — Disputes over the color and style of front doors opened the way to what is now Margaret Bar-Akiva’s battle against a “Trojan horse.”
There might be no better way to begin chronicling a decade for an activist that began with a term on the board of […]
In LV, They’re Playing With a Stacked Deck
Posted by admin on June 8th, 2006Some judges routinely rule in cases involving friends, former clients and business associates — and in favor of lawyers who fill their campaign coffers.
By Michael J. Goodman and William C. Rempel, Times Staff Writers
June 8, 2006
LAS VEGAS — When Judge Gene T. Porter last ran for reelection, a group of Las Vegas lawyers sponsored a […]
Paying HOA Fees
Posted by admin on May 25th, 2006KPNX Call 12
“Well first of all that sounds like the words of an activist judge.”
HOA Lawyer Writes Off Fees after Judge’s Ruling
Posted by admin on May 24th, 2006KPHO / Greg Mocker
Judge rebukes lawyer in HOA foreclosure
Posted by admin on May 24th, 2006Michael Kiefer / The Arizona Republic
Attorney denies asking woman to halt Bar complaint
An attorney who specializes in homeowners-association law was chastised by a Maricopa County Superior Court judge for trying to foreclose on the home of a woman who owed back dues of less than $400 and an additional $1,000 in accumulated late fees and […]
CONTRACTING COMMUNITIES
Posted by admin on April 14th, 2006University of Illinois Law Review / Lee Anne Fennell
Private residential developments governed by homeowners associations have rapidly proliferated in recent decades. The servitudes that form the backbone of these private developments are usually viewed as autonomy- and value-enhancing private contractual arrangements that are presumptively valid. Unfortunately, the appealing contractual justification for private land use regimes […]
Daddy, What Was Private Property Like?
Posted by admin on April 9th, 2006News By Us, not news bias / Tricia S. Vaughan
At my oldest son’s fifth birthday party at a California train museum last November, I had his calendar on display so that his playmates could write good wishes. My son had different plans; he wanted no one touching his calendar: “It’s my private property!” As frustrated […]
PROPERTY LAW AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Posted by admin on April 4th, 2006by J. Gordon Hylton, David L. Callies, Daniel R. Mandelker, and Paula A. Franzese
Restrictive Covenants … 534
Does excessive reliance on servitudes do more to destroy community than to build it?
The following material is excerpted from Prof. Paula A. Franzese’s article, Does It Take a Village? Privatization, Patterns of Restrictiveness and the Demise of Community, […]
On The Commons with Shu Bartholomew
Posted by admin on March 28th, 2006start()
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1) Nevada Attorney, Hal Taylor
On The Commons this week is Hal Taylor. Hal, a Nevada attorney, represents Judi Burns whose home was foreclosed on to collect $600 in fines and a little over $200 in past due assessments. Incredibly this case was just heard by the Nevada Supreme Court. […]
Nevada Woman Loses All In A Brutal Game
Posted by admin on March 21st, 2006click to enlarge
Steve Marcus
LAS VEGAS SUN
Judi Burns stands in front of her current residence in Henderson on Tuesday. After a dispute with the Pebble Creek Homeowners’ Association and a seven-year court battle, she lost her home and savings.
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New Jersey Homeowners Fight Aesthetic Rules (Twin Rivers)
Posted by admin on February 25th, 2006All Things Considered, February 25, 2006 · A dispute over aesthetics is winding its way through New Jersey courts. Residents of Twin Rivers — a private community — are suing their homeowners’ association. They’re challenging a contract that forces them to abide by certain aesthetic rules. Nancy Solomon reports. Listen
