Property (Aspen Casebook)

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A concise edition of the legendary casebook, Property: Concise Edition, Third Edition is perfectly suited for use in a four-credit course. Jesse Dukeminier's trademark wit, passion, and human interest perspective has made Property, now in its Ninth Edition, one of the best--and best loved--casebooks of all time. A unique blend of authority and good humor, you'll find a moveable feast of visual interest, compelling cases, and timely coverage of contemporary issues.

The updated third edition includes extremely relevant updates featuring:

• New Cases:
  • Supreme Court cases--U.S. Patent Office v. Booking.com: This is a major new trademark case; Murr v. Wisconsin: takings case
  • Other new cases--Commonwealth v. Magadini (Mass. S. Jud. CT. trespass case, replaces State v. Shack); Mund v. English (easement by estoppel case, replacing Kienzle v. Myers); more
  • Note cases: City of Boise (recent 9th Cir. decision regarding rights of homeless persons to housing); Cowpasture River Preservation (2020 U.S. S. Ct. decision re easement or fee in Atlantic Coast Pipeline controversy); Friends of Danny DeVito v. Wolf (2020 Pa. S. Ct. decision re takings attack on temporary COVID business moratorium)
• New Topics:
  • COVID-19: implications of COVID for various aspects of Property law, e.g., moratoria on tenant evictions, mortgage foreclosure, takings law
  • Property rights of those experiencing homelessness
  • Legal matters regarding shared housing/Airbnb
  • African-American "heirs' property" and partition
• Revisions/Clarifications:
  • Revised and clarified aspects of Chapter 10 (Servitudes)
  • More on the Fair Housing Act
  • Some new problems in Chapter 6 (Landlord/Tenant)
• New Photos and Graphics:
  • Detailed graphics on redlining