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Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann Girard A Law Corporation;
Legal Alert/Article May 16, 2013, previously published on May 14, 2013 An owner of a medical marijuana collective challenged a county zoning ordinance that restricts the location of medical marijuana collectives and cooperatives to commercial and manufacturing zones. The court of appeals rejected the owner’s challenge to the zoning ordinance finding that the...
| | Employment Law in the News: Paid Sick Leave in NYC, Social Media in NJ, Mandatory NLRB Posters
Julie Levinson Werner; Lowenstein Sandler LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 9, 2013, previously published on May 8, 2013 Businesses with 20 or more employees will be required to provide paid sick time to their workers, if legislation before the New York City Council is passed. Although Mayor Bloomberg is expected to veto the bill, the City Council likely will override his veto.
| | California Supreme Court Recognizes Local Authority in Medical Marijuana Case
Jeffrey V. Dunn; Best Best & Krieger LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 9, 2013, previously published on May 7, 2013 In an unanimous opinion, the California Supreme Court has upheld local laws that regulate or prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries.
|  | Building Safety - New Onerous Obligations for Owners
Marie-Claude Cantin, Louis-Martin Dubé; Lavery, de Billy, L.L.P.;
Legal Alert/Article May 3, 2013, previously published on April 2013 On March 18, 2013, the Règlement visant à améliorer la sécurité dans le bâtiment, adopted pursuant to the Building Act, came into force. The new Regulation, which became chapter VIII of the Safety Code entitled “Building”, contains rules on fire...
| | City May Not Use “Anti-SLAPP” Motion to Dismiss Claim That City Employee Falsely Told Potential Tenants That Property Owner Was Criminally Convicted
Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann Girard A Law Corporation;
Legal Alert/Article April 26, 2013, previously published on April 23, 2013 Property owners often bristle at statements that local government staff make to prospective tenants or purchasers of their property, concerned that they will be scared away by overly harsh or inaccurate speech. When those statements are perceived to have gone too far, property owners sometimes sue...
| | The Florida Building Commission Clarifies the Application of the Florida Accessibility Code to Multifamily Housing Projects
Robert S. Fine; Greenberg Traurig, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 24, 2013, previously published on April 22, 2013 On April 9, 2013, the Florida Building Commission voted to issue a declaratory statement to resolve confusion among building officials regarding the proper application of the 2012 edition of the Florida Accessibility Code for Building Construction, which is published as the Accessibility Volume to...
| | Medical Marijuana and County Zoning Ordinances
Renaud Cook Drury Mesaros PA;
Legal Alert/Article April 22, 2013, previously published on Spring 2013 On April 11, 2013, Governor Brewer signed SB 1098, which allows county zoning ordinances to apply to the cultivation of cannabis or marijuana.
| | Adverse Possessor Of Religious Nonprofit’s Land Does Not Need To Pay Property Taxes To Obtain Title To Land
Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann Girard A Law Corporation;
Legal Alert/Article April 17, 2013, previously published on April 16, 2013 The law of adverse possession allows persons to obtain legal title to property by occupying the property for at least five years, and satisfying other requirements such as the payment of taxes on the property. In practice, the tax payment requirement prevents most occupiers from successfully...
| | Industry leaders speak out: Where are we now, where are we headed and where are the opportunities?
Judy Lynn Simoncic; Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 5, 2013, previously published by New York Real Estate Journal on July 2011 There remain many uncertainties affecting the commercial real estate industry, but we have turned a corner. The Long Island economy is seeing signs of a recovery from lower unemployment rates in Nassau and Suffolk to the positive absorption of industrial and office space. Vacancy rates are expected...
| | Antrim Truck Centre: Supreme Court Restores Compensation Award For New Highway Construction
Sean G. Foran; Weirfoulds LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 5, 2013, previously published on April 2013 Where no land is actually taken from landowners, when is a public authority liable to pay compensation for the construction of public works? In Antrim Truck Centre Ltd. v. Ontario (Minister of Transportation), a decision released on March 7, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada has established...
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