Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Property Law & Real Estate : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Wilkie v. Robbins |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-219 |
| Summary: | In an action brought by the owner and operator of a commercial guest resort against officials of the Bureau of Land Management alleging harassment and intimidation aimed at extracting an easement across plaintiff's private property, denial of qualified immunity for defendants is reversed where the landowner has neither: 1) a private action for damages of the sort recognized in Bivens; nor 2) a claim against the officials in their individual capacities under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Government Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law |
| Title: | Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations v. City of New York |
| Date: | 06/14/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-134 |
| Summary: | The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not immunize a foreign government from a law-suit to declare the validity of tax liens on property held by the sovereign for the purpose of housing its employees. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Watters v. Wachovia Bank, N.A. |
| Date: | 04/17/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1342 |
| Summary: | A national bank's mortgage business, whether conducted by the bank itself or through the bank's operating subsidiary, is subject to Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) superintendence, and not to the licensing, reporting, and visitorial regimes of the several states in which the subsidiary operates. |