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 …
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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 …