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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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'Eliot Ness of Iraq' Wins Asylum

ABA Journal

July 1, 2008

Christopher Nugent - Washington

Christopher Nugent is quoted in this cover story of the ABA Journal cover story regarding Iraqi refugees.

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