Which of the following remedies is available against a real property owner to enforce the provisions of federal acts regulating air and water pollution? >Citizen Suits against the Environmental Protection Agency to Enforce ComplianceState Suits to Enforce the Laws against Violato...
16 Aug 2021Gregory Mills lives next to Dean Kimbley. Mills kept a journal of Kimbleys activities, and even videotaped a few of the activities, including Kimbleys smoking marijuana and standing drunk in his backyard and yelling, "Hi, neighbor!" Kimbley also threw a snowball into Mills yard a...
16 Aug 2021Explain why a company would want to perform a self-audit to determine whether it has any environmental violations.
16 Aug 2021In 1997, Isbell purchased a building in San Diego with the intent to open an adult entertainment establishment there. Because this building was located within 1,000 feet of a residential area, however, a San Diego zoning ordinance precluded him from operating there. Isbell applie...
16 Aug 2021Kenneth and Mary Norpel purchased a house, and Kenneth attached a 35-foot flagpole to it. He did not obtain the permission of the architectural committee of the Stone Hill Community Association. This consent was required by a restrictive covenant to which the Norpel house was sub...
16 Aug 2021Patrick Bossenberry owned a house in a planned community area. Each lot in the area was limited by a restrictive covenant to use for a single-family dwelling. The covenant defined family as a blood or marital relationship between most of the occupants. Bossenberry rented his buil...
16 Aug 2021Some sections of the city of Manitou Springs have hills of varying degrees of slope. To protect against water drainage and erosion, the city adopted a hillside zoning ordinance that required homes on hillsides to be surrounded by more open land than in the balance of the city. Se...
16 Aug 2021The Stallcups lived in a rural section of the state. In front of their house ran a relatively unused, unimproved public county road. Wales Trucking Co. transported concrete pipe from the plant where it was made to a lake where the pipe was used to construct a water line to bring ...
16 Aug 2021The EPA has increased its BACT standards to impose greenhouse gas emissions standards for passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles and all businesses that emit greenhouse gases. The emissions from these small businesses and vehicles are not per se pol...
16 Aug 2021Taback began building a vacation home on a parcel of wooded land. It was to be a three-story house, 31 feet high. This height violated the local zoning ordinance that limited residential homes to two and one-half stories, not exceeding 35 feet. When Taback learned of this violati...
16 Aug 2021A zoning ordinance of the city of Dallas, Texas, prohibited the use of property in a residential district for gasoline filling stations. Lombardo brought an action against the city to test the validity of the ordinance. He contended that the ordinance violated the rights of the o...
16 Aug 2021General Automotive operates Grand Auto Parts Stores, which receive used automotive batteries from customers as trade-ins. Generals policy in disposing of these batteries had been to drive a screwdriver through each spent battery and then sell them to a battery-cracking plant oper...
16 Aug 2021The McConnells bought a home in Sherwood Estates. The land was subject to a restrictive covenant that "no building, fence, or other structure" could be built on the land without the approval of the developer of the property. The McConnells built a dog pen in their yard that consi...
16 Aug 2021Philip Carey Co. owned a tract of land in Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania, on which it deposited a large pile of manufacturing waste containing asbestos. Carey sold the land to Celotex, and Celotex sold the land to Smith Land & Improvement Corp. The EPA notified Smith that unless...
16 Aug 2021Federal Oil Co. was loading a tanker with fuel oil when the loading hose snapped for some unknown reason and about 1,000 gallons of oil poured into the ocean. Federal Oil was prosecuted for this water pollution. It raised the defense that it had exercised due care, was not at fau...
16 Aug 2021Union Electric wishes to construct a new coal-fired plant in the northeastern corner of Arizona. Union plans to use the maximum achievement technology for the scrubbers on the plant to reduce emissions. Will Union be able to obtain a permit from the EPA to build and operate the n...
16 Aug 2021The Loggers and the Naturalists Cant Be Friends: Oregon—Where the Spotted Owl Comes Flying in the TreesTwo U.S. agencies halted logging in the Pacific Northwest because it endangered the habitat of the northern spotted owl and the red-cockaded woodpecker, both endangered species....
16 Aug 2021The Loggers and the Naturalists Cant Be Friends: Oregon—Where the Spotted Owl Comes Flying in the TreesTwo U.S. agencies halted logging in the Pacific Northwest because it endangered the habitat of the northern spotted owl and the red-cockaded woodpecker, both endangered species....
16 Aug 2021The Loggers and the Naturalists Cant Be Friends: Oregon—Where the Spotted Owl Comes Flying in the TreesTwo U.S. agencies halted logging in the Pacific Northwest because it endangered the habitat of the northern spotted owl and the red-cockaded woodpecker, both endangered species....
16 Aug 2021The Loggers and the Naturalists Cant Be Friends: Oregon—Where the Spotted Owl Comes Flying in the TreesTwo U.S. agencies halted logging in the Pacific Northwest because it endangered the habitat of the northern spotted owl and the red-cockaded woodpecker, both endangered species....
16 Aug 2021The Loggers and the Naturalists Cant Be Friends: Oregon—Where the Spotted Owl Comes Flying in the TreesTwo U.S. agencies halted logging in the Pacific Northwest because it endangered the habitat of the northern spotted owl and the red-cockaded woodpecker, both endangered species....
16 Aug 2021For over 30 years, GE manufactured electric capacitors containing Pyranol at its plants located in New York. GE met its Pyranol needs by purchasing polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) from Monsanto. GE then refined the PCBs it purchased until the PCBs attained the level of purity nece...
16 Aug 2021Mahard Egg Farm, Inc., headquartered in Texas and with operations in Oklahoma, is the countrys 17th largest egg producer. Mahards poultry operations generated significant amounts of manure—estimated to be in excess of 50,000 tons of dry manure per year. Mahard applied poultry man...
16 Aug 2021The topic of insurance has been eliminated from the content outline for the CPA exam as of October 2009. However, the exam lags behind the content change, and real property questions have continued to be released as questions on the exam.Which of the following deeds will give a r...
16 Aug 2021The topic of insurance has been eliminated from the content outline for the CPA exam as of October 2009. However, the exam lags behind the content change, and real property questions have continued to be released as questions on the exam.Ritz owned a building in which there was a...
16 Aug 2021The topic of insurance has been eliminated from the content outline for the CPA exam as of October 2009. However, the exam lags behind the content change, and real property questions have continued to be released as questions on the exam.To be enforceable against the mortgagor, a...
16 Aug 2021The topic of insurance has been eliminated from the content outline for the CPA exam as of October 2009. However, the exam lags behind the content change, and real property questions have continued to be released as questions on the exam.Which of the following statements is corre...
16 Aug 2021O conveys property to A on December 1, 2015. O conveys the same property to B who does not know about A and who records his deed on December 2, 2015. O then conveys the same property to C. Who has title to the property?
16 Aug 2021Christine and Steve Mallock buried their son in a burial plot purchased at Southern Memorial Park, Inc. Each year the Mallocks conducted a memorial service for their son at his burial plot. On the seventh anniversary of their sons death, the Mallocks went to their sons grave at 1...
16 Aug 2021The Friersons have a two-story building in Easley, South Carolina, that shares a common wall with an adjacent two-story building owned by David and Patricia Watson. An outdoor stairway located on the Watsons property provides access to the second floor of both buildings. A disput...
16 Aug 2021The Friersons have a two-story building in Easley, South Carolina, that shares a common wall with an adjacent two-story building owned by David and Patricia Watson. An outdoor stairway located on the Watsons property provides access to the second floor of both buildings. A disput...
16 Aug 2021Robert E. Long owned land in the City of Hampton that he leased to Adams Outdoor Advertising Limited Partnership. Adams had an advertising billboard placed on the property. On October 6, 1993, Long notified Adams that he was terminating the lease. Adams accepted the termination a...
16 Aug 2021Bradt believed that his backyard ran all the way to a fence. Actually, a strip on Bradts side of the fence belonged to his neighbor, Giovannone, but Bradt never intended to take land away from anyone. Bradt later brought an action against Giovannone to determine who owned the str...
16 Aug 2021Henry Lile owned a house. When the land on which it was situated was condemned for a highway, he moved the house to the land of his daughter, Sarah Crick. In the course of construction work, blasting damaged the house. Sarah Crick sued the contractors, Terry & Wright, who claimed...
16 Aug 2021Miller executed a deed to real estate, naming Zieg as grantee. He placed the deed in an envelope on which was written "To be filed at my death" and put the envelope and deed in a safe deposit box in the National Bank that had been rented in the names of Miller and Zieg. After Mil...
16 Aug 2021At approximately 3:00 a.m., on February 3, 2000, Sonya Winchell was driving two of her friends through a Fort Wayne Taco Bell drive-thru. When Winchell arrived in line, there was one car in front of her at the speaker. Winchell noticed that the occupants of the car, Remco Guy and...
16 Aug 2021What is the relationship between trespass and adverse possession?
16 Aug 2021Determine whether the following would be fixtures or personal property.Mini-refrigerator in a student dorm
16 Aug 2021Determine whether the following would be fixtures or personal property.Refrigeration/freezer units in a grocery store
16 Aug 2021Determine whether the following would be fixtures or personal property.Refrigerators in a restaurant kitchen
16 Aug 2021Determine whether the following would be fixtures or personal property.Refrigerators in an apartment complex with furnished units
16 Aug 2021Determine whether the following would be fixtures or personal property.Refrigerator in a home
16 Aug 2021Kenneth Corson, 10, lived with his mother, Lynda Lontz, in an apartment building owned by Bruno and Carolyn Kosinski. While playing with other children who lived in the same building, Corson was drawn to a stairwell that provided access to the buildings laundry room and roof. Cor...
16 Aug 2021After executing the various deeds, J. M. Fernandez Jr. placed them in a closet (with other valuable papers) for safekeeping until they could be physically delivered to the various grantees, including Sylvia Sheppard, when she returned to Key West. This closet was in the home that...
16 Aug 2021Harald Dudes real estate dealings began breaking bad in 2003. After securing a $1.9 million loan from Washington Mutual on a house he owned in Aspen, Mr. Dude quickly sought to borrow another $500,000 from Wells Fargo. The Washington Mutual mortgage was not yet recorded because o...
16 Aug 2021Bunn and his wife claimed that they had an easement to enter and use the swimming pool on neighboring land. A contract between the former owners of the Bunns property and the adjacent apartment complex contained a provision that the use of the apartment complexs swimming pool wou...
16 Aug 2021In 1972, Donald and Joyce Carnahan purchased a 1-acre lot located on a 22-acre lake. The purchase included a portion of the lake bed. The Carnahans used the lake for recreational activity in both winter and summer, and their activities included motorboats, jet skis, and wave runn...
16 Aug 2021Bailey’s Brake Service, a bit of an eyesore at a main intersection near a failing downtown area of Mesa, Arizona, was a family-founded, owned, and operated business that had been open in its existing location since 1970. Lenhart’s True Value Hardware store was also a longstanding...
16 Aug 2021Which of the following statements is correct regarding fiduciary duty?a.A directors fiduciary duty to the corporation may be discharged by merely disclosing his or her self-interest.b.A director owes a fiduciary duty to the shareholders but not to the corporation.c.A promoter of ...
15 Aug 2021Absent a specific provision in its articles of incorporation, a corporations board of directors has the power to do all of the following except:a.Repeal the bylaws.b.Declare dividends.c.Fix compensation of directors.d.Amend the articles of incorporation.
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