Showing posts with label Property. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Property. Show all posts

Eighth Circuit: CRP Holdings A-1, LLC v. Casey D. O'Sullivan

Property, Bankruptcy

As the unenforcable lien against a property held by a tenancy of the entirety clouded title, it was fixed for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code, and can therefore can be avoided according to the terms of the Act.

http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/16/01/156020P.pdf

Ninth Circuit: USA v. Estate of Wayne Hage

Property, Administrative

Water rights merely alow for access to divert the water - there are no appurtenant grazing rights implied as an easement of necessity.

Filing of government suit is not a final agency decision subject to review under the APA.

Reassigned on remand.

https://d3bsvxk93brmko.cloudfront.net/datastore/opinions/2016/01/15/13-16974.pdf

Ninth Circuit: Eden Place v. Sholem Perl

Bankruptcy / property

As the bankruptcy proceeding is final with respect to the property at issue, interlocutory appeal has jurisdiction.

A tenant's remaining within a premises during an a unlawful detainer action does not create an equitable interest in the property, as the court is ruling on the supervening question of better title.

Dissent:  Insufficiently final for jurisdiction.

https://d3bsvxk93brmko.cloudfront.net/datastore/opinions/2016/01/08/14-60039.pdf



Ninth Circuit: DM Residential Fund II v. First Tennessee Bank DM

Property - rescission.

Lack of electrical service constitutes inquiry notice for lack of utility easement.

Dissent (Koz):  No duty to investigate in the statute; no proof that they could have investigated; potential fraud claims are TKO'd by summary judgment.

https://d3bsvxk93brmko.cloudfront.net/datastore/opinions/2015/12/30/13-56309.pdf




Federal Circuit: Rogers v. US

Takings, Property conveyance

Where the language of the deed is clear, under Florida law, no statute, policy, or fact can operate to convert an interest in fee simple for the purpose of running a railway to an easement.

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/13-5098.Opinion.12-22-2015.1.PDF