A New Online Source For Legal News From South Florida

Another great source for legal news from the South Florida region has come online: South Florida Legal News. Between the anonymous South Florida Lawyers Blog which started up a couple months ago, and this new site which delivers frequent and pithy capsules of key news items, the South Florida Blawgosphere has really picked up [...]

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New Condo Lawsuits With A Curious Procedural Posture

The main newspaper out of Broward County, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, reports here on recently filed lawsuits by condo purchasers against the developer of Veranda at Plantation.
As is becoming typical with condo purchaser lawsuits, the plaintiffs have alleged a mix of state and federal claims.  Under Florida state law, the buyers claim that the developer [...]

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Condo Associations And Damaged Windows

It amazes me that the issue still comes up, considering that South Florida has not experienced (thankfully) a hurricane in two years, but I still get calls stemming from confusion over who bears responsibility for insuring damaged or destroyed windows in a condo unit.
The answer is actually quite simple.  Florida amended its condominium laws in 2003 [...]

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Terms Of New Miami Beach Condo Class Action Settlement Harken Back To Happier Times For The Florida Condo Market

As reported in the Miami Herald, a class action filed against the developer of the Deauville condo-hotel in Miami Beach in 2005 has settled. The settlement enables the plaintiffs — who signed purchase agreements in 2004 which were subsequently cancelled by the developer — to close on the original terms of the cancelled 2004 contract, should [...]

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An Anonymous South Florida Lawyer Enters The Blogging Fray

As I know a lot of the folks who read this blog are interested in general news from Miami/South Florida and its entertaining legal/political culture (in addition to the condo law analyses which have been posted with increasing frequency of late), I wanted to direct attention to an exciting new addition to the South Florida blog [...]

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Update: More Florida Condo Contract Lawsuits Filed Which May Yield Important Developments In Condo Contract Law

Two recent news articles provide examples of the types of condo contract lawsuits which are currently filling up Florida’s courts, and which will undoubtedly contribute to the evolution of Florida state law of condo contracts in the coming months and years.
First is this article from Sarasota County, on the West Coast of Florida, which reports that a [...]

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The Right To Peaceably Assemble In Condo Common Areas

The last two articles which I have posted to this blog take up issues related to certain Florida state and federal law grounds for condo purchasers to cancel their purchase agreements.  To be sure, these are timely issues given the market downturn which has impelled many a buyer to cast a critical eye upon the [...]

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The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act: Is ILSA A Land Mine Ready To Explode For Condo Developers?

The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act (“ILSA”) is a federal law which was passed in the late 1960s to protect buyers of out-of-state land.  Those were the days when parcels of vacant land might be advertised to far-flung speculators as promising wonderful development opportunies.  Only once the land was purchased and the purchaser travelled to [...]

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