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Real Estate: Alert - November 4, 2009

The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act (ILSA) is not a talisman that transforms a condo purchaser’s “buyer’s remorse” into a legally cognizable defense to a breach of contract claim, or so goes the clear implication of the Eleventh Circuit’s recent unanimous opinion, Stein v. Paradigm Mirasol, LLC. In broad context, the Court's decision is best understood as its attempt to inject some common sense into the two-year completion exemption. The ruling must be welcome news to condo developers because it is likely to dampen – at least temporarily – the recent proliferation of lawsuits from unhappy residential condo purchasers seeking to reverse or escape deals that have proven to be bad financial investments.

Religious Institutions: Update - November 5, 2009

This update examines the prohibition of religious institutions from engaging in activities that result in inurement of a church's or faith-based organization's income or assets to insiders. A case review includes discussion of an Arkansas case in which an issuance of tax-exempt bonds to a university associated with the Churches of Christ were found not to violate the state constitution, and a Wisconsin Supreme Court case in which it was held that both federal and state free exercise clauses prohibit employment discrimination claims against employees whose positions are "important and closely linked to the religious mission of a religious organization."

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Georgia Lawyer Legacies

Georgia Bar Journal

April 1, 2008

Robert S. Highsmith- Atlanta

With a Bar membership as diverse as Georgia’s—where people relocate to our cities from the other 49 states and countries as far away as China—it may be easy to forget that for a number of Georgia lawyers, the roots of their legal careers run deep. For some, they are but the second generation: the beginning of a legal legacy that may stretch for generations to come. Others, however, can find their last names in Georgia Bar Association rosters from before the Civil War.

The following article features the Highsmith family.

Reprinted with permission from the Georgia Bar Journal, Volume 13, Number 6, April 2008. Copyright State Bar of Georgia. Statements expressed within this article should not be considered endorsements of products or procedures by the State Bar of Georgia.

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