Real Estate & Property Law

Cook County Sheriff Refuses to Serve Eviction Notices
The Cook County Sheriff said that he will no longer serve eviction notices (story): CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said Wednesday he is suspending foreclosure evictions in Cook County, which had been on track to reach a record number of evictions, many because of mortgage foreclosures...

Question: Cook County Evictions
Do they ever answer their telephone? Anybody ever been to their window in Daley 702? You have to go there in-person to give them the Order of Possession to move forward with scheduling an eviction...

90 Jacksonville Tenants Face The Boot In Foreclosed Apartment Complex As Renters Receive Eviction Notices

Staten Island Senior Charged With Forging Eviction Notices In Attempt To Illegally Give Tenants The Boot

Tenants In Foreclosed Boarding House To Fight Off Eviction; Say New Law Prohibits Landlord From Giving Them The Boot
In Hyannis, Massachusetts, the Cape Cod Times reports:A group of tenants who received eviction notices last week at a local lodging house may be among the state's first to find protection under a federal foreclosure law signed this spring by President Barack Obama...

Despite Intimidating Letters To The Contrary, NJ Tenants Have Protection From Foreclosure Eviction
In Jersey City, New Jersey, The Jersey Journal reports on the growing practice by real estate agents and others of sending intimidating letters to renters in foreclosed homes in attempts at forcing them to move, despite New Jersey law protecting them from foreclosure eviction...

Contract Extortion
County Executive Robert Janiszewski ordered to pay Hudson County a $650,000 racketeering settlement.

Tulsa County Natural Gas Royalties
Plaintiffs Awarded $126 Million

Fayette County School Board
faces sex abuse class action lawsuit

Becker County
Faces Civil Rights Class Action by Inmates and their Attorneys

Clean Water Act
Lexington-Fayette County agrees to spend $250 million to fix its sanitary and storm sewer systems.

Jefferson County Sewer System
alleging fraud, negligence, and conspiracy resulting in excessive fees.