Category: torts
19 December, 2012 (10:00) | Bloomberg, community networks, disaster response, disaster risk mitigation, High-rise, HUD, Incentives, Liability, Mold, New York City, NYCHA, Public housing, Rental, torts, US News |
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] After two days of posting demonstrating the utter failure of NYCHA’s command-and-control ass-and-elbows approach to crisis management, reported by the New York Times (December 10, 2012), there is a bright story about community networks, self-organized and almost spontaneously evolving, as [...]
17 December, 2012 (18:15) | Bloomberg, community networks, disaster response, disaster risk mitigation, High-rise, HUD, Incentives, Liability, Mold, New York City, NYCHA, Public housing, Rental, torts, US News |
By:David A. Smith Before the Federal government bestows untold billions on New York City for its recovery from Sandy, should it not ask if New York City is deserving of such bounty? Volunteers deliver food and inquire about specific needs among residents of the Red Hook Houses on November 16, nearly three weeks [...]
26 November, 2012 (17:06) | Apartments, Boston, Enforcement, Inclusionary zoning, Landlords, laws, Leases, marijuana, Massachusetts, Regulation, Rental, torts, Zoning |
By:David A. Smith By fits and starts, out of fiscal necessity (dressed up in compassion and tolerance) America is legalizing marijuana – and as the collapse of an order is often more chaotic than its establishment, the law we Massachusetts voters just passed is already giving landlords headaches, as revealed in this snickering article [...]
23 October, 2012 (09:35) | Bankruptcy, Dewey LeBoeuf, Eurozone, Global news, insolvency, Recapitalization, torts |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith As we saw yesterday, using as source material a Wall Street Journal (October 9, 2012) article on an unexpectedly swift recovery from former partners of now-dissolving law firm Dewey & LeBeouf, for those facing trouble any landing is a good one if you can walk [...]
22 October, 2012 (10:34) | Bankruptcy, Dewey LeBoeuf, Eurozone, Global news, insolvency, Recapitalization, torts |
By:David A. Smith Any landing is a good one if you can walk away from it, say the pilots with gallows humor, and that spirit animated the bankruptcy partial settlement just realized for Dewey & LeBeouf, as reported in the Wall Street Journal (October 9, 2012): It’s all for science A judge [...]