Now the court is deciding a critical question in another property case, Jones v.
In the second property rights case, the state of Hawaii put a cap on the amount of rent that oil companies can charge their service stations.
Asked if the Supreme Court overstepped its authority in a property-rights case, she said the Court thought not.
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"I don't want to state or imply that we will or won't go after anybody, " Van Vleet added, saying that Fender would protect its intellectual property on a case-by-case basis.
In 2004, software vendor The SCO Group (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ) sued Linux user AutoZone (nyse: AZO - news - people ) for what it claims are violations of its intellectual property--a case that hasn't yet been resolved.
The fact pattern is very similar to Mr. Rolfs except that in his case, the property had been in the family a long time.
These banks have a high share of mortgage lending and are heavily exposed to commercial property and construction lending - which is what has done for them, because Spain's housing market is weak and becoming weaker, and its commercial property sector is a basket case.
One's perspective shifts easily, however, when targets change and the defendants themselves are no longer aggressively litigious corporations with an arsenal of filing cabinets spilling over with intellectual property, as was the case when one company used a recently granted patent to go after a number of podcasting networks.
Is it simply a matter of there being a finite number of facial geometries? (You'll note, perhaps, that the Toyota Avalon looks like the latest product from Ford Design.) Was it, as others have suggested, a case of intellectual property and fair play, since Ford at one time owned Aston Martin?
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While mining the millions of asteroids around Earth opens up a new area for the mining industry, questions arise regarding staking claims and owning property, or asteroids in this case, in space.
Although the mortgage crisis was an extreme case from which many property owners could not escape, landlords can protect themselves from this peril by buying property in neighborhoods that are likely to retain their desirability.
You will need a detailed journal on why, when, where and what you are doing as a property manager in order to prove your case.
Searching for a way to defend clients facing foreclosure, Mr. Ice began researching English case law and the history of property rights.
Since failure on any of the points denies the property tax exemption, the focus on the case was whether Camp Moshava relieves the government of some of its burden.
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The men's defence team argued that there was no case to answer, because the property was not residential and that there was no proof the men were living in the building.
With marked-up copies of Verizon's agreement, Cablevision attorneys pointed out areas they found weak: Verizon's schedule to build out service in the entire town, its obligation to restore damaged municipal property and clauses excusing Verizon from penalties in case of unusual events.
The constitution also establishes the principle of private property but leaves open the possibility of expropriation in case there is any public need that requires it.
"Anyone who has an interest in property should be concerned with the outcome of this case, " says Frank Alexander, a real estate law professor at Emory University.
So too would allowing the value of gifts of artworks, made while the donor is still alive, to be claimed against income tax, as is the case with gifts of quoted shares or property.
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The firms range in size from a few people, such as IdeaMarket, a firm in Austin, Texas, that plans to serve as an on-line broker of intellectual property, to more than a hundred in the case of CitySearch, which creates Internet guides to cities and regions.
McCurry argued that a memo from then director of administration David Watkins had stipulated that the computer file was not to be used for political purposes--although the fact that Watkins was subsequently forced to resign for misuse of government property did not help the press secretary's case.
In the case of the Roman Catholic Church, the property is usually titled to the diocesan bishop, who serves in the office of the corporation sole.
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Remember, this case was not just about the government taking property to expand much-needed infrastructure, or confiscating condemned, dilapidated property in order to fix it up or turn it into a library.
That brings up the question, if someone, a member of your family, or someone who is a witness to these proceedings, had a serious case in which oneself, one's property, one's family has been severely damaged, would you suffer without a whimper perjurious testimony given against you?
In his role as President of the Intergovernmental Committee for the promotion of the return of cultural property to its country of origin or its restitution in case of illegal export, his diplomacy and spirit of cooperation empowered him to overcome obstacles to the work of the Committee, and the high quality of his contributions have always been appreciated.
"This case is about whether the league can exercise intellectual property rights however it chooses, " says Ganis.
New London case that it was OK for government to condemn property for a private development project.
In this case, you make allocations for mortgage interest, property tax, expenses and depreciation between the two uses.
The landmark case over Texas homeowners' right to defend their property was all anyone in town could talk about.
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