Baseball Strikes Out On Stats
Millions of sports fans participate in fantasy sports games in which the participants "draft" the names of real professional athletes and compete against other teams based on the actual statistical performances of the athletes during their seasons. In the case of baseball, until several ........
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Intrafamily Loans Subject To Tax Laws
For parents with the financial means to do so, there may be a natural impulse to help a child get started in his or her adult life by making a loan to the child, on terms that are favorable to the child. Notwithstanding the virtues of such generosity, the cold reality is that, if the terms are too ........
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Is It "Work" To Dress For Work?
Six times a day, for 6 to 10 minutes each time, workers at a chicken processing plant were required to put on, take off, and clean safety and sanitary clothing that they had to wear while on the job. The special gear consisted of smocks, hairnets, gloves, earplugs, and safety glasses. When a ........
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The Power Of A Power Of Attorney
A power of attorney is an instrument that authorizes an "agent" to act on behalf of someone else (the "principal") in a legal or business matter. When an elderly woman executed a power of attorney that gave her younger sister certain powers, a dispute arose when the younger ........
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Careful What You Click
A Texas online purchaser used her daughter-in-law's credit card to order some automobile seat covers and have them delivered to the daughter-in-law in Alabama. When they were delivered, it was discovered that the covers were the wrong color. The daughter-in-law sent them back to the company and ........
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Mold Exclusion Enforced
Among the well-settled rules for interpreting insurance policies is one requiring courts to apply a policy according to what it says, not what regulators or individual insurers thought it said. While ambiguities in policy language generally are settled in favor of consumers, the ambiguity must be ........
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Condemnation Action Dooms Business
When the District of Columbia condemned property on which it planned to construct a municipal office building, the corporation that owned the land received an award compensating it for the property, "including all interest therein." The quoted phrase was relevant, because the property had ........
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Flood Zone Fraud
A jury recently gave a hefty damages award to homeowners who sued a real estate company for falsely representing that the home they were buying was not located in a flood zone. When the rains came after the homeowners had moved in, the front yard, backyard, and a patio were under three feet of ........
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Unsightly appearances
A property owner operated a business variously described as a flea market, a second hand store, and a repair service for lawnmowers and tillers. After the city inspected his property, it cited him for violating a public nuisance ordinance, listing a variety of items ranging from baby strollers to ........
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Zoning laws and the exercise of religion
The federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) provides that the government may not implement a land use regulation in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person, including a religious assembly or institution, unless the ........
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