Khashoggi ≠Kavanaugh “Res ipsa loquitur” (rayz ip-sah loh-quit-her) n. Latin for “the thing speaks for itself,” a doctrine of law that one is presumed to be negligent if he/she/it had exclusive control of whatever caused the injury even though there is no specific evidence of an act of negligence. –Law.com President Trump on Tuesday criticized...Read More
Multiple, Unconscionable Crimes In my mind if not in the eyes of the criminal justice system, Jacob Wetterling’s murderer is guilty of not one but two, equally heinous crimes: 1) abducting, molesting, and killing 11 year-old Jacob Wetterling in 1989; and 2) lying about his knowledge of the boy’s whereabouts for 27 years, thereby denying closure and...Read More
Post-Closing Buyer “Surprises” & Other Issues It doesn’t happen often**, but I’d estimate that 99% of the time when a Realtor fields an emergency phone call the day after closing, it’s the Buyer calling their agent — who then calls the listing agent (representing the Seller) — to relate a newly-discovered problem with the home (note: problems that...Read More
