Powerless and Out in the Cold.

We were able to enlist help and get away. But what we found on the roads was just as grim. The City of Pittsburgh was crippled. Main roads untouched 24 hours after the snow began. Driving on four lane highways that felt like snowy open fields. Without four wheel drive, you’re going nowhere. Ice from compacted snow made for a crazy wild ride, like in an amusement park, violently lurching side to side. Roadblocks were everywhere, mostly consisting of stuck or abandoned vehicles.

Landlord-Tenant: Tenant is Entitled to At Least 90 Days Notice After Foreclosure.

Under the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act, the new owner after foreclosure can no longer summarily evict residential tenants. If the owner intends to occupy the structure as a residence, he must give 90 days notice to vacate. However, if the owner does not intend to occupy the premises, the tenant must be given the opportunity to complete the term under the lease.

Let Me Tell You Something Really Important About Getting Sued.

Here’s something else you might not know: when the credit card issuer sells delinquent accounts in bulk to a third party, who then tries to collect them, the odds that the new plaintiff will be able to prove its case in court are greatly reduced. This is because card issuer gives minimal documentation to the assignee.

Are We Lost Yet?

In most time travel fiction, the traveler leaves and returns to the present, but in Lost, there are two parallel selves, one in the present universe and one in the past. And it seems, at least on Lost, they can meet each other. Would you still sign up for time travel if it involved meeting your former self? Complicated, isn’t it?

Fifty Years Ago: Carolina Gentlemen Sit In.

On February 1, 1960 four black students “sat in” at a segregated lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, NC. It was a historic event because it started a movement — one that only ended when its goal had been achieved. The International Civil Rights Center and Museum opened its doors today at the very building where the Woolworth’s lunch was located and where the Woolworth’s sign still hangs.

Prepaid Legal Service’s Top 5 Request Categories.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle © 2010 A large prepaid legal service provider, Prepaid Legal Services, Inc., published its list of the top 5 categories of requests for its services last year. They are: Real Estate, Landlord/Tenant Issues and Foreclosure – Approximately 358,000 requests for legal services that include residential and commercial real estate transactions, landlord and […]

Waiting for WiFi

The blood bank, which relies entirely upon volunteer donors, is always trying to boost participations with raffles and other promotions. There are plenty of us who would gladly pay in blood for a couple of quiet hours every now and again when we could recline in peace and read blogs and tweets.

Courtroom Security, Terror Version

In order to have the kind of security that a terror trial demands, people with other business of any kind must be totally excluded from the security perimeter.

Thus, the building to house a trial with the highest security would, of necessity, be a prison. So where is there a prison with both state of the art highest security and courtroom facilities?

Back to Guantanamo.

Whatever the political and symbolic drawbacks, it is safe.

PittsburghLegal on Twitter.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2010 If you would like to be notified of new posts on this blog, together with a link, you can follow PittsburghLegal on Twitter. I’ll also re-tweet selected tweets by others that I find interesting. Most legal blogs maintain sites on Twitter these days and it is very quick and […]

Closing the Book.

I remember discussing the assignment with my mother and suggesting if she actually wanted to to know what the book was about, she ought to read it. Shortly thereafter, she became involved in a discussion at a cocktail party where some of the condemnations were heated, only to discover that she was the only person in the room who had actually read the book.

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