EHA Managing Partner, Stephen R. Angel, conducted a continuing legal and professional education seminar to lawyers, land surveyors, and engineers, entitled, “New York Land Boundaries and Access Rights.”  The topics of Mr. Angel’s presentation included rights of way and easements, boundary disputes, adverse possession, and riparian and water rights.

The Commercial Division of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County granted a mortgagee summary judgment in a foreclosure action involving a commercial property in Sag Harbor in Sag Harbor Land, LLC v. Sag Dev. Partners, LLC, 2011 NY Slip Op 32671U

The Appellate Division, Second Department upheld the dismissal of a discovery proceeding in Surrogate’s Court, in Matter of Bennett, 84 A.D.3d 1365

The Supreme Court, Suffolk County overturned a zoning board’s denial of the special permit and variances needed to allow a public library’s modest expansion, in East Hampton Library v. Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of East Hampton, 31 Misc. 3d 1231A

The Appellate Division, Second Department upheld the easement rights of homeowner association over private property, in Zupa v. Keitt, 84 A.D.3d 792

New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, upheld a dismissal of an action to “pierce the corporate veil” in East Hampton Union Free School District v. Sandpebble Builders Inc., 16 N.Y.2d 775

The Appellate Division, Second Department upheld a decision enforcing a 1977 judgment of divorce affecting title to property, in San Filippo v Hobbs, 81 A.D.3d 918