The California Court of Appeal has delivered a victory to Holland & Knight clients Ruegg & Ellsworth and Frank Spenger Company, as well as to housing advocates across the state.
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Debt collectors must disclose the CDC eviction
moratorium to tenants facing eviction and cannot misrepresent
tenants eligibility for protection.
On April 19, 2021, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
( CFPB ) invoked its rulemaking authority under the Fair
Debt Collection Practices Act to issue an
interim final rule requiring debt collectors seeking
eviction for nonpayment of rent to provide clear and conspicuous
written notice to tenants of their rights under the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention s ( CDC )
eviction moratorium.
The CDC s eviction moratorium generally prohibits property
owners from evicting certain tenants for nonpayment of rent, if the
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Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial
hardship across the globe, including significant and widespread
economic distress. The hardship has impacted the nations
landlords small and large. For example, according to a January 2021
report published by Moody s Analytics, 18% of renters
nationwide more than 10 million people are behind on
rental payments. That is more than triple of an average year.
The federal government, along with some state and local
governments, have furthered that distress by instituting rent
and/or eviction moratoria that disregard landlords economic
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YOYOSO, an international fast-fashion and leisure
department store brand, is set to open its second South Florida
location in the Wynwood Art District of Miami. Partner
Andrea Gendel, co-chair of Pryor Cashman s Leasing
practice, and Real Estate Group member John Rothman
represented the brand in the transaction. According
to
South Florida Business Journal:
Scheduled to open its doors in the fall, Yoyoso will occupy
9,800 square feet at the corner of N.W. Second Ave. and N.W. 28th
St., according to a statement from Thor Equities Group, which
In
Fitbit, Inc. v. Valencell, Inc., IPR2017-00319,
Paper 73 (Apr. 5, 2021), on remand from the Federal Circuit, the
Board determined the patentability of several previously omitted
dependent claims and found them unpatentable as obvious.
Fitbit petitioned for
Inter partes review of
Valencell s patent directed to a method of generating data
output containing physiological and motion-related information,
arguing that several of its claims were obvious. In its
original Final Written Decision, the Board found the patent s
sole independent claim to be obvious. But the Board refused to
consider the obviousness argument of several dependent claims
because, in the Board s view, the obviousness challenge of