News, Sports and Entertainment Law
Bill Bock helps keep the Olympic playing field level.
KGR partner Bill Bock was profiled in the recent edition of Super Lawyers magazine. Bill has been named a Super Lawyer since 2015 and is most well known for his service as General Counsel for the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Bill began with USADA as outside counsel in 2000 and became General Counsel in 2007. His time with USADA encompassed the BALCO scandal, the Lance Armstrong investigation, and most recently, investigation of state-sponsored doping. In addition to his extensive work in the field of sports law, Bill is also a skilled civil litigator and regularly counsels clients on election and municipal law. We are extremely proud to have Bill as a leader of the KGR family. You can read the full profile here.
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Real Estate Property Rights: An Easement Holder May Not Sue for Trespass
An easement holder, such as a public utility, cannot sue to physically remove a “trespasser” from the easement. That’s what the Indiana Court of Appeals recently decided. 1 Without standing to sue for trespass, the easement holder can stop the adverse party from using the property only if the adverse use injures the easement holder’s own use of the property, and that injury outweighs the reasonable necessity of the adverse party’s use of the property. This case pitted a municipality against a utility, but the same principles could just as easily be applied to any individual or entity with a nonpossessory interest in land, such as an easement, license, equitable servitude restrict covenant, or profit. Duke Energy held a utility easement in an area where the City of Franklin proposed to put an intersection. Duke claimed, among other things, that the City did not have any property rights in the intersection, and therefore the City was nothing more than a trespasser and should be barred from constructing the intersection. As the Court of Appeals held, “Duke is essentially pursuing an ejectment action based on alleged trespass.” The City claimed it did have interests in the property (obtained alternatively through a Road Transfer Memorandum of Agreement, dedication, the doctrine of public usage, or prescriptive easement/adverse possession). The City argued that an easement holder cannot pursue a trespass claim or seek an ejectment and therefore even if the City did not have property rights, Duke, did not have standing to pursue an ejectment action because it was a…
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Chances are your taxes are due earlier this year.
If your business files an IRS Form 1065 (partnership or LLC taxed as a partnership) or an 1120-S (S-Corp), your tax return is due earlier this year. Your filing date is now March 15th instead of April 15th as in previous years. The reason for the change is to allow business owners to receive their Schedule K-1s sooner to facilitate timely filing of their personal returns. Tax time is a good time to get your corporate governance documents in order. Call Kroger, Gardis, & Regas, LLP for all your corporate needs.
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