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How Hinckley Allen Took On Rhode Island Beach-Access Law
A Rhode Island judge this month sided with beachfront property owners, represented by Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP, ruling that a 2023 law that shifts the public access line landward amounts to a taking.
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3 Takeaways On CFIUS' Bid To Expand Real Estate Coverage
Real estate practitioners should not overlook the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' plan to bring 59 more military sites under its jurisdiction for reviewing land deals, even if the proposal comes as no surprise, attorneys said.
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State Bank Supervisors' GC On Regulation 'Push And Pull'
Margaret Liu, general counsel for the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, spoke to Law360 Real Estate Authority about navigating the balance between federal and state financial agencies, sharing information with the Federal Housing Finance Agency and what a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision means for state financial regulators.
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Catch up on the hottest real estate news out of Texas so far this year, from data center construction and roadblocks in a major rail project to a Texas landowner's win in a takings suit and the U.S. Department... (more story)
Cold-storage warehouse giant Lineage Inc. on Wednesday priced an upsized $4.4 billion initial public offering within its range, represented by Latham & Watkins LLP and underwriters counsel Goodwin Procter LLP,... (more story)
![Redy, which allows home sellers to choose real estate agents competing on the platform to list their home, received $15 million in seed capital in 2022 from Deer Park, which argued that a company co-founder used $2 million in funds which the company has not been able to recoup. (Photo via Government)](https://cdn.statically.io/img/assets.law360news.com/1861000/1861302/3a2f8a505110294706bcd806cbd8cef0484f2358-chancery-court.png)
Startup Redy.com's assets were essentially frozen Tuesday when an investor won an order in Delaware Chancery Court that also expedites a case alleging that a co-founder threatened then removed celebrity real e... (more story)
OKO Group and Cain International secured a $565 million loan with Sidley Austin LLP's guidance from TYKO Capital for 830 Brickell, an office tower underway at in Miami, Florida, according to a statement from both developers.
Medical Properties Trust announced Wednesday that the real estate investment trust plans to sell eight properties to Dignity Health for $160 million, the latest sale amid a flurry of selling activity by the company.
Polsinelli PC announced Wednesday that it has continued to deepen its real estate finance bench with a counsel in Washington, D.C., who arrived from Sidley Austin LLP.
Life science-focused real estate investment trust Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. told investors during an earnings call Tuesday that it will be focusing on what it calls mega-campus developments in the coming years.
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A Miami-based venture capitalist has told a New York federal judge that real estate firm Desarrolladora La Ribera can't simultaneously invoke and reject arbitration clauses in a defamation suit against him and... (more story)
A Connecticut state court judge was under no obligation to redefine a proposed class of low-income tenants in order to help them meet the certification requirements in a fraud and unfair trade practices lawsui... (more story)
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Tenants who receive Section 8 housing vouchers are staking out their arguments in a False Claims Act suit as landlords and property managers do the same ahead of the class action's trial next week in California federal court.
The New Jersey Supreme Court this week issued a three-year suspension against an attorney accused of misusing client funds from a racketeering case to buy a new computer system and pay his wife for paralegal services.
A former McElroy Deutsch executive told a New Jersey state court that just because her husband — former McElroy Deutsch chief financial officer John Dunlea — has filed for bankruptcy does not mean she needs to... (more story)
The city of Evanston, Illinois, has urged a federal judge to toss a proposed class action alleging a 2020 housing reparation program in the city is discriminatory, saying the plaintiffs lack standing since the... (more story)
A Wayne County, Michigan, treasurer has argued in Michigan federal court that a putative class action accusing the county and other parties of engaging in a tax foreclosure and kickbacks scheme is time-barred.