Real Estate

Courts May Bypass Equitable Mootness to Rule on the Merits, Fifth Circuit Says

Even if an appeal is equitably moot, the appellate court nonetheless has appellate jurisdiction. Equitable mootness is prudential, not jurisdictional.
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A Writ of Possession Doesn’t Terminate a Lease or Preclude Assumption

A landlord who terminates a lease isn’t entitled to a claim for future rent, at least in Florida, according to a district judge who affirmed Bankruptcy Judge Isicoff.

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