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Visibility Rankings  | | #325 out of 13,257 lawyers in San Francisco, California | | #22,085 out of 898,912 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Real Estate; Finance; Land Use | | | Education | Duke University, J.D., 1975, Stanford University, A.B., 1972 | | | Admitted | 1975, California and U.S. District Court, Southern District of California; 1976, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1978, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1984, Hawaii and U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii; 1996, U.S. Supreme Court | |
| Memberships | Bar Association of San Francisco (Member, Sections on: Business Law; Real Property); State Bar of California (Member, Sections on: Business Law; Real Property Law; Environmental Law); Hawaii State Bar Association; American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Business Law; Real Property Law; Environmental Law). | | | Born | Lincoln, Nebraska, March 7, 1950 | | | Biography | Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Alpha Delta. | | | Reported Cases | Neogard Corporation v. Malott & Peterson-Grundy 106 Cal. App. 3d. 213 (1980). | | | ISLN | 907294427 | | | Transactions | Site acquisition and development in California and Hawaii for national big-box retailer, since 1986. | |
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Court Rules an Entitlements Contingency Renders Land Contract UnenforceableJoseph S. Stuart, Robert D. Buell, David B. Franklin, George C. Rudolph, Benjamin Allan Hirasawa, July 10, 2008 In the recent case of Steiner v. Thexton (May 2008), the California Court of Appeal ruled that a particular purchase agreement containing a discretionary, unilateral "entitlements" contingency, is void.
Court Decides Whether Specific Performance Remedy Is Available for Commercial Real EstateJoseph S. Stuart, George C. Rudolph, Kenneth J. Stipanov, Robert D. Buell, David B. Franklin, June 4, 2008 In a recent case, Real Estate Analytics, LLC v. Vallas, the trial court ruled that a breaching seller could not be forced to consummate a sale of a commercial property because the property was like a "widget" and that such commercial/investment property is not unique enough to garner the... |
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