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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.

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International Trade: Alert - November 3, 2009

The Obama administration has adopted a dual-track strategy toward Iran by opening a dialogue while also laying the groundwork for tougher sanctions. In addition to discussing this and other developments in U.S.-Iran relations, this alert examines what tougher sanctions – as well as pending House and Senate bills and increasingly aggressive actions taken by federal agencies against specific foreign entities that are believed to have violated U.S. embargo or export laws – could mean for foreign companies and U.S. subsidiaries that do business with Iran, particularly its petroleum industry.

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Articles & White Papers

Establishing Residency Outside of Oregon for Personal Income Tax Purposes
 

Matthew Bender & Company, Inc

May 1, 2008
 
Joshua Husbands - Portland

Due to Oregon's onerous state income tax, a practitioner may find that some clients will attempt to establish that they are not residents of Oregon but are instead residents of neighboring Washington, which imposes no state income tax on it residents. However, the process of changing one's residence for tax purposes is more difficult than simply purchasing a house in Washington.

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