Overlawyered » landlord tenant law http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Annals of tasteful legal marketing http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/annals-of-tasteful-legal-marketing/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/annals-of-tasteful-legal-marketing/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:41:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27014 KickEmOutQuick evictions and collections, based in Ogden, Utah [Natasha Lydon, Above the Law]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/annals-of-tasteful-legal-marketing/feed/ 0 UK: “Evicted gipsies launch human rights claim” http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/uk-evicted-gipsies-launch-human-rights-claim/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/uk-evicted-gipsies-launch-human-rights-claim/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:16:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24195 “A gipsy family accused of making life a misery is using legal aid to fund a human rights challenge in the European courts for being evicted – from a travellers’ camp.” [Telegraph]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/uk-evicted-gipsies-launch-human-rights-claim/feed/ 0 Perennial litigant cuts wide swath among Newark landlords http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/perennial-litigant-cuts-wide-swath-among-newark-landlords/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/perennial-litigant-cuts-wide-swath-among-newark-landlords/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 05:15:52 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23013 Well-written article about the lengthy career of one pro se litigant in Newark who has been tying up landlords and others in court for years; it took a fair bit of gumption to publish, given the tendency of many litigious persons to sue those who would expose their litigiousness to public notice. Worth careful study for the light it sheds on the difficulty our legal system so often has in bringing down the curtain on determined perennial litigants [Barry Carter, Newark Star-Ledger]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/perennial-litigant-cuts-wide-swath-among-newark-landlords/feed/ 2 Landlord vs. twittering tenant, cont’d http://overlawyered.com/2009/07/landlord-vs-twittering-tenant-contd/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/07/landlord-vs-twittering-tenant-contd/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:06:06 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=12625 Matthew Heller at OnPoint News has been digging further into that Chicago landlord-tenant fight that culminated in a cause celebre lawsuit over a posting on Twitter (earlier). More: Marc Randazza.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/07/landlord-vs-twittering-tenant-contd/feed/ 4 April 28 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/april-28-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/april-28-roundup/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:10:29 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=10836
  • Forensics gone wrong: Alabama mom spends nine months in jail after medical examiner misdiagnoses stillbirth as murder [Patrick @ Popehat]
  • Bouncer shot outside bar going after owners individually to collect $1.5 million verdict [W.V. Record]
  • “Feds Seize Assets of Companies Suspected of Hiring Illegal Aliens” [Reisinger, Corporate Counsel]
  • Dealing with compulsive-hoarder tenants who fill apartment up to the ceiling with trash can be legally tricky [San Francisco Weekly]
  • NYC has paid more than a half billion dollars over past decade to settle police misconduct suits [NY Post]
  • Los Angeles schools taking aim at state laws that make it near impossible to fire teachers [L.A. Daily News via Kaus]
  • Another parent put through mistaken-identity child-support hell, this time in Pennsylvania [Harrisburg Patriot-News via Amy Alkon] For a similar case from California, see August 7-8, 2001;
  • Disabled man finds vehicle towed, wheels himself in cold to distant lot, catches pneumonia. Liability for tow company and parking lot owner? [John Hochfelder, who also hosts Blawg Review #209 this week on a theme of remembering his father, a veteran of the WWII battle of Iwo Jima]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/april-28-roundup/feed/ 1     Kozinski grudge-match litigant, cont’d http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/kozinski-grudge-match-litigant-contd/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/kozinski-grudge-match-litigant-contd/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:18:16 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=8541 Readers may remember Cyrus Sanai as the litigant with the big grudge against Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski who proceeded to launch a campaign trying to destroy Kozinski’s career (with some help from the Los Angeles Times). Now a California appeals court has issued the latest ruling in Sanai’s decade-long dispute with the owner of a Newport Beach apartment he once rented. Shaun Martin at California Appellate Report has details on the ruling, which sends the fight back to the lower courts. Martin calls it “a tale of litigation run amok. A tale that explains, in part, why some people hate lawyers; and, in particular, engaging in transactions with them.”

    P.S. Sanai, in our comments section, says we’re wrong: for one thing, we described him as having sued the owner of the apartment he once rented when in fact “the complaint at issue is against UDR’s successor in interest, First Advantage Corporation, and UDR’s owner, Harvey Saltz”.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/kozinski-grudge-match-litigant-contd/feed/ 1     NYC council: poor tenants should have eviction lawyers http://overlawyered.com/2007/11/nyc-council-poor-tenants-should-have-eviction-lawyers/ http://overlawyered.com/2007/11/nyc-council-poor-tenants-should-have-eviction-lawyers/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:13:47 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5562 Note that the proposal here is not to provide free lawyers in cases where careful case-screening establishes a fair argument that the eviction is in some way legally wrongful or unjustified. It’s to use taxpayer money to make sure that tenants who’ve trashed the apartment or stiffed the landlord on months of rent are also assigned a lawyer who will predictably use all the procedural leverage available to stall things out further, extract a payment as a condition for the tenant’s leaving, and so forth. NYU’s Brennan Center is pushing the scheme, which has 22 sponsors on the New York City council. (Manny Fernandez, “Free Legal Aid Sought for Elderly Tenants”, New York Times, Nov. 16). For more about “Civil Gideon” schemes, see this post (scroll) and this one (David Giacalone: “Attorney Employment Assurance Plan”).

    P.S.: To clarify matters: for now, the program would apply to elderly tenants (which doesn’t mean all the occupants of the apartment will necessarily be elderly).

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