Real Estate & Property Law

Adverse Possession in the News
First-year property doctrines are alive and well! In case you missed it last week, the doctrine of adverse possession was splashed all over the news. Kenneth Robinson is attempting to claim adverse possession over a foreclosed home in a wealthy...

So you've been arrested in Tarrant County
A person arrested in Tarrant County is probably going to have his or her case set in the Tarrant County Justice Center located at 401 W. Belknap in downtown Fort Worth. Depending upon the type of case, it is classified...

Adverse Possession: The Pictures That Prove
In case you needed it, I have yet another reason to keep those old pictures of family picnics: adverse possession. Most broadly defined, adverse possession, is a method of acquiring title to real property without compensation by possession for a statutory period of time under certain conditions...

New York Enacts Changes to Adverse Possession Law to Require Claim of Right
Following a 2007 veto of S.5364-A/A.9156  (veto #153)by Governor Spitzer, this week Governor David Patterson signed S.7915-C/A.11574-A changing the statutory standard for adverse possession in New York...

Squatters claim more than $8 million worth of Tarrant County properties
While county officials were asleep at the wheel, Tarrant County became a magnet this year for an odd assortment of squatters claiming other people's houses all over the area...

Brown and Williams on Adverse Possession
Carol Necole Brown (UNC - Chapel Hill) and Serena Maria Williams (Widener) have posted Rethinking Adverse Possession: An Essay on Ownership and Possession on SSRN. Here's the abstract: In the wake of the present real estate crisis, there has been...

House Closing
Sealing a home sale

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Champaign County, IL
$19,000 settlement reached in troubled nursing home suit.

Medical Tubing Errors Leading to Adverse Events Including Death
Medical Tubing Errors Leading to Adverse Events Including Death

CellCept
Roche Issues Changes to Warnings and Adverse Events

Wrinkle-Fillers
FDA to Review Labeling due to Adverse Event Reports

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
alleging government agencies and officials violated immigrant workers' constitutional rights.

Tree Stands
Ardisam Inc. pays $420,000 settlement for failing to report defective product to government officials.