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Why did HUD issue its proposed final rules concerning "disparate impact" and the Fair Housing Act now? Answer: the U.S. Supreme Court

I wanted to briefly report on the new proposed HUD rules that provide that if a housing practice has a "discriminatory effect," HUD (or a private

My colleague, Julie Goldstein, recently wrote an excellent entry about the Pennsylvania Superior Court finding that a contractor may recover payments

Trial judges in New Jersey are doing a much better job of late reducing the foreclosure back log in part by aggressively disposing of baseless

For mortgage loans that have been bundled into mortgaged backed securities and other collateralized debt obligations ("collectively, "CDO's"), the

On January 28, 2013, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in City of Reading v. Zeiber, No. 995 C.D. 2012 (Cmwlth. Ct., Jan. 28, 2012), reversed an

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral argument a property owner's claim that the denial of a permit to develop his land constituted an

Two recent Pennsylvania cases confirm that bringing a procedural challenge to a zoning ordinance will be difficult, absent bringing such a challenge

Mortgage priority lawsuits continue to attract the attention of the New Jersey courts. In that context, the theory of equitable subrogation continues

Absent official conduct that is so egregious as to "shock the conscience," municipal action with respect to zoning and land use matters, even when

On January 15th, after years of legal wrangling, a Florida man's case was resolved by the United States Supreme Court. In October, 2006, Hurricane