Court Rejects Neighboring Property Owners’ Due Process Claim to Prevent ‘Wolf Point’ Construction in River North Area (Chicago)

I thought I was gonna have to dust off my 18,000-pound crimson-covered Laurence Tribe Constitutional Law book from 1993 Fall semester for this one.    Seriously though, when I see a case that discusses substantive and procedural due process issues refers to Federal and State Constitutional amendments, my PTSD flashbacks to 1L are triggered.   In Residences at Riverbend Condominium …

The Landlord’s Duty to Mitigate Damages

  When a commercial tenant defaults under a multi-year lease, say by abandoning the premises with several years left on the lease, the law requires the landlord to mitigate its damages.  So, if retail tenant skips out on a 10-year lease after year 2,  the landlord cannot sit idly by for 8 years and then recover 8 …