Legal Advisories

2020

04.22.20 "Force Majeure" and COVID-19: A Commercial Tenant's Guide

2015

06.25.15 Neighborly or Trespassing? Equitable Easement and Portable Patio Furniture
04.09.15 California Court Says Neighbor Has a License to Landscape, Forever

2013

01.23.13 "Use it or lose it" principle does not result in partial extinguishment of easement.

2012

10.11.12 The Agreed-Boundary Doctrine: Acquiescence in Fence Location Does Not Establish New Property Boundary Line
09.20.12 California Adopts Seven Hour Deposition Rule Effective January 1, 2013
08.14.12 Property Owners: Only you can prevent prescriptive easements.
03.01.12 Adverse possession by a co-owner: intent to oust co-owner must be clear and unequivocal

2011

09.27.11 Billboard Easement Prohibits Landowner from Constructing a Building Blocking the View of the Billboard
09.01.11 Consumer, But Not Unlicensed Contractor, May Enforce Arbitration Clause

2010

06.01.10 Arbitration: Good Decision or Bad, You Get What You Bargained For
02.05.10 Coverage Case Creates Easement Lesson for Landowners and Insureds
02.03.10 An Honest Mistake Over the Use of an Easement is Not an Accident and Therefore Not a Covered Loss

2009

11.17.09 For Companies Operating On The Web, New Data Security Regulations Have Broad Implications
10.22.09 Don't Turn Your Back on Your Property for Too Long, You May Lose It by Adverse Possession

2008

10.31.08 Homeowners' CC&Rs can provide an exclusive easement over a private roadway on a landlocked parcel
06.12.08 Bullivant prevails in rare case upholding terminating sanctions
04.22.08 A landowner can acquire a prescriptive easement over surface water coming from a neighboring property
02.26.08 Easement by necessity? Not if the federal government has anything to do with it.

2007

09.21.07 An exclusive easement, how can that be?

2006

06.30.06 "Right to pass by permission" sign may protect your property from an uninvited and permanent use by another

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