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Zombie Alert! Whiteman Zombie Property Enforcement Practice Secures Over $4M in Civil Penalties for New York Municipalities
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Zombie Alert! Whiteman Zombie Property Enforcement Practice Secures Over $4M in Civil Penalties for New York Municipalities

Posted By: Thomas Ruane (T.J.)
Over the last three years, Whiteman Osterman and Hanna attorneys Thomas Shepardson and T.J. Ruane have brought dozens of lawsuits against some of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders and servicers on behalf of several New York State municipalities under the State’s Zombie Property Law (New York Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law §1308, et seq.). Their efforts have resulted in court orders and judgments requiring these lenders and servicers to remediate, and in a few [...]
Practice Area(s):   Real Estate Municipal Environmental
Wetlands are a hot topic...and not a very happy one
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Wetlands are a hot topic...and not a very happy one

Posted By: Terresa Bakner
STATE ISSUESThe Governor of the State of NY has addressed State regulated wetlands in his budget bill proposing to do away with the regulatory freshwater wetlands maps and merely have them in place for educational purposes. This means that like the Army Corps, the State DEC staff will be able to go out in the field and identify areas as wetlands even if they do not show up on a map. Moreover, although to a degree the DEC staff have already begun doing this when reviewing how State mapped [...]
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