by Heather | Jan 31, 2019 | C.A.R., Legal, TSBOR
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Domino’s Pizza may have to conform its website to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 to ensure that disabled persons have as full and equal enjoyment to its website as non-disabled persons. In the case...
by Heather | Nov 8, 2018 | C.A.R., Legal, TSBOR, TSMLS
AB 1289 (Arambula) and AB 2884 (Irwin), C.A.R.’s sponsored real estate law cleanup bill, was signed into law by the Governor. C.A.R. has been involved in a multi-year effort to update the real estate law including updating terminology and clarifying the law to...
by Heather | Nov 7, 2018 | C.A.R., Legal, TSBOR
Existing law allows a client to sue an agent for sexual harassment. This new law lowers the bar for bringing such a claim. It provides that even if a business, service, or professional “relationship” does not presently exist (as is required in existing law), a real...
by Heather | Oct 29, 2018 | C.A.R., Legal, TSBOR, TSMLS
Existing law requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of prescribed training and education regarding sexual harassment, abusive conduct, and harassment based upon gender, to all supervisory employees within 6 months of their assumption...
by Heather | Oct 17, 2018 | C.A.R., Legal, TSBOR, TSMLS
The two new laws, although touching many sections of the Civil Code and Business and Professions Code, are “clean-up” legislation clarifying and modernizing many of the definitions in the Real Estate law overall. The primary practical impact...
by Heather | Oct 11, 2018 | C.A.R., Legal, TSBOR, TSMLS
Private Transfer Fees (“PTFs”), fees imposed by the developer, typically require the payment of a fee when the property is resold by the original buyer and any subsequent owner to a new purchaser. While the fees often provide a benefit to the property, that is...
