What Happened: A tenant wanting to open a new restaurant in Dallas expressed concern about the lack of nearby offsite parking but signed the lease anyway. The landlord set out to find more parking but was unsuccessful. As a...
What Happened: Tenants leased space in a Long Beach, Calif., shopping mall for use as a live music and entertainment venue. But when they opened their doors, they got lambasted with noise complaints from other tenants. Turn down the...
What Happened: A landlord sued to evict a spa tenant for violating its lease obligation to maintain a general liability insurance policy. The spa acknowledged the violation but asked the court to toss the lawsuit because the landlord never gave it the formal notice and...
What Happened: On Jan. 6, an airport authority assigned a lease to a hotel tenant requiring the latter to install a full-service bar, swimming pool, and other improvements and operate under a nationally recognized chain brand name by Dec. 31. But the hotel met neither obligation...
What Happened: Eight years after moving in, a grocery store tenant renewed its lease in 2003 and wound up staying another 12 years. But as with all long-term relationships, there were disagreements. Issues in this tenancy that had lain dormant for 20 years surfaced just five...
What Happened: A medical lab claimed that the provision in its lease providing for liquidated damages of “net present value of the entire balance of rent due herein as of the date of [landlord’s] notice, using the published prime rate then in effect” was too...
What Happened: This case began when an Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) employee fell 15 feet after the passenger ramp she was operating collapsed. The employee sued the landlord, the Port owner, for negligence due to a defect on the property. A federal jury awarded her more...
What Happened: A landlord leased space containing a cellular communications tower for tenants’ use to store valuable equipment. The lease gave the tenants “24/7” access to the space. The landlord changed the security arrangements from a simple lockbox to a more...
