Topic
Valuation
279 published works
New York Business Divorce
Appellate Court Resolves Disputes Over Valuation and Capital Accounts in Partnership Dissolution Case
When a partnership is wrongfully dissolved and then continued by one of the partners, are the departing partners entitled to be paid fair market value or book value for their…
PropertyProf Blog
When Your Art Isn’t Art
By propertyprof
Slate has a weirdly interesting article on what happens when insurance agents decide that a piece of art is no longer art:To give a brief explanation of art that is…
Federal Eminent Domain Blog
Interesting Article on Valuation in Eminent Domain Proceedings During a Recession
In a well-written article by James G. Greilsheimer and Cynthia Lovinger Siderman, the two Kramer Levin lawyers provide interesting insights into the valuation during our Great Recession. This blogger had…
Land Use Prof Blog
The True Value of Conservation Easements
As regular readers know, I am obsessed with fascinated by conservation easements. Lately, I have been particularly intrigued by valuation concerns. Where a landowner donates a conservation easement on her…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
The Impact of Appraisals on the Potential Liability of ESOP Fiduciaries
This is an interesting story on a number of levels. The article tells the tale of the Department of Labor suing the fiduciaries of an ESOP for failing to properly…
The Appellate Strategist
When Is the Property Valued? The Law of the Great Recession
By Kirk Jenkins
Our preview of the September term of the Illinois Supreme Court continues with In re Marriage of Mathis [pdf]. Often in divorce proceedings there is a need to bifurcate: to…
Energy Law Report
A Bonus Payment is Not Relevant to the Validity of an Oil & Gas Lease.
In Eastern Ohio, before 2010, a customary signing bonus for an oil and gas lease was usually less than $25 per acre, as it had been for years. By the…
PropertyProf Blog
Celebrity Sellers Have Little Effect on Home Prices
By propertyprof
The LA Times reports that buyers won't pay more for the homes of the rich and super famous:Although the masses respond to rock-star branding, housing is too expensive for celebrity…
inversecondemnation.com
Latest Chapter In the Port Chester Takings Case (p.s. You Can’t Destroy Draft Appraisal Reports)
Another short one from New York's Appellate Division (Second Department). In In re Village of Port Chester, No. D34768 (May 1, 2012), the court held that several parcels of land the…
inversecondemnation.com
BIO In SCOTUS Just Compensation Case
Here's the BIO in in River Center LLC v. Dormitory Auth. of the State of New York, No. 11-922 (cert. petition filed Jan. 23, 2012), the case in which a Manhattan…