LATEST SUMMARIES
CIVIL PROCEDURE, CONTRACTS, INSURANCE LAW, PROPERTY LAW &
REAL ESTATE
Studio
Frames Ltd. v. Standard Fire Ins Co., No. 05-2063
In
case involving standard flood insurance policy issued pursuant to
National Flood Insurance Program, summary judgment awarding coverage
to plaintiff, an insured tenant, is affirmed as building coverage
for plaintiff's leasehold improvements is not prohibited under
either the policy or the governing statute, and defendant insurer
breached the insurance contract. Order denying pre- and
post-judgment interest to plaintiff is affirmed as the federal flood
insurance program is not a commercial enterprise. Read
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CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, EVIDENCE,
SENTENCING
US
v. Blatstein, No. 06-4210, 06-4285
Conviction for
mail fraud based on conditional plea, reserving right to appeal
adverse suppression ruling, is affirmed over claim that search
warrants were constitutionally invalid. Defendant's sentence is
vacated based on the Government's forceful challenges to several of
the factors on which the court relied in varying downward. Read
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