Real Estate & Property Law

Georgia legislature passes revised sex offender residency restrictions
As detailed in posts here and here, last year the Georgia Supreme Court struck down part of the state's sex offender residency restriction on a takings theory...

A new note on sex offender residency restrictions
Thanks to this post at CO, I see a new note on sex offender residency restrictions from the Northwestern University Law Review...

Missouri high court limits application of sex offender residency restriction
Thanks to this post at Sex Crimes, I see that the Ohio Supreme Court is not alone in issuing an important ruling limiting the application of a state residency restriction...

New Jersey court rejects municipal sex offender residency restriction
As detailed in this Newark Star Ledger article, a state intermediate appeals court ruled yesterday that local towns cannot enact their own sex offender restrictions within New Jersey...

Still more on sex offender residency restrictions
I’ve written numerous times about the goofiness of sex offender residency restrictions (like I did here), in which legislatures and city councils enact ever-more restrictive laws on where sex offenders can live, despite a dearth of evidence that the laws do any good, and some evidence they’re actually harmful...

The Full Story - "Ohio Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Not Retroactive"
Posted by Chuck Kallendorf: “The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Ohio’s residency-restriction statute prohibiting certain sexually oriented offenders...

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

Dumb Texas Laws
Stupid Laws in the Lone Star State

Dumb California Laws
Stupid Laws in the Sunshine State

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Sex Offender Lists
Registries by State and County

How do you recover money from a stop payment placed on a personal check given to you?
you can always take them to small claims court and sure them for 3 times the amo...

My fiance's check is DD into a local credit union. Bank seems to have a pattern of "invisibly holding" charges from the debit card until just HOURS before his DD is processed (and this is after hours, of course). Over th
Have your fiance take the information you've collected and go into the bank...

Can I be fired for working a second job?
sadly you can be fired for anything thats not discriminatory, so yeah you can.

Bar issues include constant trash in front of my business, left over open containers of alcohol and broken beer bottles in parking lot. Overnight parking in front of my business from bar customers who drank too much and
Find out about city ordinances. Talk to them and see how they can help; be court...

An article appeared in our local paper in which it stated the following, Gail Zinger said she told Mr. Jahn she'd be asking.... I am Gail Zinger and I did not say that statement as stated. I spoke with reporter and was t
I'm afraid that paraphrasing like this is part of normal journalistic pract...

California Labor Laws
alleged violations of California labor laws such as overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

Grubb & Ellis
alleging violations of fiduciary duties to shareholders and securities laws.

Hewlett-Packard and Staples
allegedly violated antitrust laws in collaborating on the sale of replacement ink jet printer cartridges.

Damaged Billboards
Lamar Advertising pays $35,000 settlement after violating permit laws.

ValueClick
allegedly violated consumer protection laws by promising ‘free’ goods that where not actually free.

Home Buyers Consulting Network, Inc.
$613, 000 settlement reached in federal laws violation dispute.