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A husband and wife unwittingly build their dream house on their neighbor's land.
In another state, a husband and wife who care for a dying stranger are given a home as a token of gratitude -- but then fail to file the legal paperwork required to make the gift complete.
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For practicing attorneys, "black-letter law" does not mean much in the real world. Black-letter law simply tells us what the law would say before fact...
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A term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by a majority of judges in most states.
The term probably ...
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Govt. Emps. Ins. Co. v. Hughes, 10th Dist. No. 08AP-1120, 2009-Ohio-5023, does not conflict with the decision of the First Appellate District in Cincinnati Ins. Co. v. Kramer (1993), 91 Ohio App.3d 528, or with the decision of the Eighth Appellate District in Williams v. Aetna Ins. Co., 8th Dist. No. 83340, 2004-Ohio-2390. Though all three cases involved injuries caused by the negligence of a driver who was operating a rental car but who had not rented it, the policy language in Hughes was different from that in Kramer and Williams, and the unique language in each case, rather than a black-letter principle of law, determined the outcomes.
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Although many -- if not most -- family law cases involve both black letter law and fact-driven analyses, it is interesting to find a case that is controlled primarily by one of these influences. Following are two such cases recently addressed by the Fourth Department Appellate Division.
Trumped by new law
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Did the U.S. Supreme Court quietly lay down a tougher pleading standard in a recent antitrust case that will affect all plaintiffs filing complaints in federal court?
Yes and no, appellate and antitrust attorneys say - which means that while the case itself may not indicate a change in black letter law, it does signal a shift in the way the highest court interprets the pleading rules - and lower courts have already begun to follow suit.
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... of actual fraudulent intent, it is black letter foreclosure law that, when a State's proced...
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...If it is black-letter law that an unambiguous private contract’...
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It is, as the lawyers say, black letter law that the National Environmental Policy ...
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Law can't control 'black market'
Regarding Columnist Mike Kelly's "America, apple pie, and AK- 47s" (Opinion, Page O-1, Sept. 12):