Category: Supreme Court
6 July, 2012 (10:09) | Brokers, consumer protection, Disclosure, home sales, Homeownership, RESPA, Supreme Court |
By:David A. Smith Any time we do something infrequently that others do every day, we’re at an information disadvantage that the experts can exploit against us – that is, if they’re unscrupulous. Don’t judge a crook by his painter? Todd White’s The Unscrupulous All consumer-protection statutes thus take as their basis the [...]
29 June, 2012 (10:13) | China, Foreclosure, Homeownership, Housing, Ireland, Litigation, Month in review, Supreme Court, US News, Zoning |
By:David A. Smith [Previous Month in Reviews available here: Mar 12, Feb 12, Jan 12] Among its many attributes, housing is a deeply personal asset – you are what you live in – That’s not what we meant by mobile homes – and so what we are permitted to do in [...]
18 April, 2012 (09:23) | Cambridge, Fresh Pond, Harmon, Housing, Regulation, Rehnquist, Rent control, Rental, Supreme Court, Takings | 1 comment
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith The country falls in love with the rhetoric, and in the end we are stuck with tyrants. – Marcel Jazy, in Under Fire Yesterday’s case-study exploration of the William Rehnquist Supreme Court dissent in Fresh Pond Shopping Center v. Callahan et al. acquainted [...]
17 April, 2012 (10:19) | Cambridge, Fresh Pond, Harmon, Housing, Regulation, Rehnquist, Rent control, Rental, Supreme Court, Takings |
By: David A. Smith I like you people, but you are sentimental shits. You fall in love with the poets; the poets fall in love with the Marxists; the Marxists fall in love with themselves. – Marcel Jazy, in Under Fire While rummaging through the Yee v. Escondido decision in search of understanding [...]
6 April, 2012 (10:23) | Boats, Constitution, Housing, Law, Litigation, Oceans, Real estate taxes, Supreme Court, US News | 2 comments
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith When I awoke this morning Dove beneath my floating home – Crosby Stills and Nash, Lee Shore Yesterday’s post introduced us to combative Fane Lozman, whose quest to have its houseboat declared real estate, even after its demolition as a waterborne vessel, has [...]