• Peterson, Martin & Reynolds LLP Obtains $2+ Million Settlement for Commercial Landlord Client

• “Buyer/Tenant” Beware: Purchase Contract May Include Lease Agreement

• Interfere With Your Neighbor’s Trees, Be Prepared to Restore Them And Pay Money Damages Times Three

• Appellate Court Slams Scofflaw Tenant for Bogus Anti-SLAPP Motion

• Ninth Circuit Confirms Old Adage in Home Buyer’s Rescission Action: “He Who Hesitates Is Lost”

• First District Court of Appeal Takes A Bit of the Bite Out of the Merger Doctrine

• Actual Damage of Agricultural Property Needed for Award of Attorneys’ Fees in Trespass Case

• There Oughta Be a Law (And There is) – Anti-SLAPP 20 Years On

• Court Expands Reach of Fiduciary Duty Law to Include Third Parties Aiding and Abetting

• BRE Wrongfully Denies Broker’s License to Applicant Who Established Rehabilitation After Fraud Conviction

• Intermittent Possession Puts Owner On Notice Of Prescriptive Easement

• Peterson, Martin & Reynolds LLP Wins $2,159,692 Arbitration Award for Residential Homeowner Clients

• Peterson, Martin & Reynolds LLP Successfully Defends Residential Homeowner Clients from Meritless Nondisclosure Claims

• PMR Webinar – DRE Complaints, Investigations & Outcomes: What Brokers Need to Know

• Purchasers (Sometimes) Have Only Two Years to Sue Brokers and Agents

• Not a Riddle – When is a Non-navigable River Navigable?

• Subcontractor Without California License Not Barred From Collecting For Work On Federal Project

• Listing Broker Not Liable to Buyer for Validity of Outdated Geologist’s Report

• Scope of Easement Limited to Historical Use

• Buyer Sufficiently Alleged That Purchase Agreement Provision Calling for Nonrefundable Deposit Was Unenforceable

• Sellers Required to Provide Transfer Disclosure Statements to Buyers of Mixed-Use Properties

• Right to Repair Act Not Exclusive Remedy Where Construction Defects Cause Actual Damages

• Right to Repair Act Requires Notice to Builder Prior to Repair of Damage

• Real Estate Agent’s Fraud Cannot Be Imputed to Broker for Exception to Bankruptcy Discharge, Unless Broker Knew or Should Have Known of the Fraud

• Listing Agent and Property Owner Have Duty to Notify Visitors of Concealed Dangerous Condition of Which Agent Has Actual or Constructive Knowledge

• Commercial Lease Allowed Only One Extension of Term Absent Clear and Explicit Language Granting Perpetual Extensions

• Strict Adherence to Lease Not Required Where Counsel Instructs Otherwise

• Servient Tenement Owner’s Refusal to Authorize Necessary Improvements to Access Road Was Interference With Easement

• Lis Pendens Insufficient to Bind Assignee Bank on Quiet Title Judgment

• Equitable Indemnity Claim Did Not Arise Until Claimant Aware of Grounds

• Construction Lenders Cannot Circumvent Stop Payment Notices

• Court Confirms Privilege Between Title Insurer, Insured and Attorney