Erica C. Barnett of PubliCola has offered their readers a news alert that I would like to echo. In a piece titled Council Committee Raises Heights in Roosevelt, she explains:
The city council’s land use committee just voted to raise maximum building heights on three blocks adjacent to Roosevelt High School to 65 feet,
In preparing for conference seminars that I will be giving early next year for the Land Surveyors Association of Washington (“LSAW”), I found a quote in a Washington Supreme Court decision that is perfectly apt for any type of boundary dispute case.
In Hudson House, Inc. v. Rozman, 82 Wn.2d 178, 179 509 P.2d
The American Bar Association Journal this last week – along with indicating a case in which the judge declared that a house was “haunted as a matter of law” [though not fact] – also provided the following couple of tragically comedic case thumbnails:
• A Florida woman sued her neighbor for defamation, harassment and emotional distress because
Earlier this month I wrote a post titled Game Theory and the Art of Settlement. Well, this morning I took a few moments to open up the September 3rd – 9th 2011 paper edition of The Economist and discovered an article within “The Economist Technology Quarterly” called Game theory in practice on page 19 [of that
In November 2007 while still living in China, I published an article in the Ningbo Guide titled Game Theory and Guanxi. Guanxi may be translated to mean personal connections. But a straight definition is illusive for many reasons not the least of which is that Western society is based largely on the individual whereas
Ten years ago our world changed … forever. Like many, I lost someone that day. The person that I lost was a friend. His name was Gordy Aamoth.
I want to reflect on Gordy’s life; what his loss has meant for me; and where, now that I am working in essentially the peace brokering business, I
Almost coincident with this Smart Money article by Quentin Fottrell in which I am quoted: “Try to build a good relationship with your neighbors because friends usually don’t sue friends,” I got myself involved in quite a rumpus with my friend and neighbor. This was my error!
Without going into particulars, I wrongly felt that I was
I had the privilege of going out with Robert Winters [background] and Eric Workinger of Chadwick & Winters on a work assignment. Now, I have always loved geometry and maps, and on this occassion, I tagged along to better my understanding of the profession which serves as the predicate for so much of my boundary dispute law work.
The
Bud, I like you. Just remember this:
Man looks into the abyss.
There is nothing staring back at him.
At that moment, man gains his character.
And that … is what keeps him out of the abyss.
That’s the language that I recall a seasoned, senior broker, played by Hal Holbrook, used to
