| Court backs canceling of real estate contracts (The Buffalo News) |
| An attorney has the right to cancel a home sale contract on behalf of a client within an agreed-upon time period, the state Court of Appeals has ruled, ending a years-long legal dispute that could have affected residential real estate deals throughout Upstate New York. |
| 11/29/2008 |
| N.Y. High Court Upholds Rule Permitting Attorneys to Cancel Home Sales (Law.com) |
| Lawyers may back out of a home purchase agreement on behalf of their clients for any reason, or for no reason at all, under the "attorney approval contingency" clause common to most residential sales contracts written in upstate New York, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled. Judge Susan Phillips Read wrote for a unanimous court that ruling otherwise would inject doubt in an area of contracts ... |
| 11/26/2008 |
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