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In the United States, most homes [1] are bought and sold using real estate agents affiliated with the National Association of Realtors (NAR), an industry lobbying group with over 1.5 million individual members. [2] NAR permits only its members to call themselves Realtors.
A groundbreaking $418 million settlement announced Friday by the powerful National Association of Realtors is set to usher in the most sweeping reforms the American real estate market has seen in ...
A powerful real estate trade group has agreed to do away with policies that for decades helped set agent commissions, moving to resolve lawsuits that claim the rules have forced people to pay ...
The jury ordered NAR and others to pay nearly $1.8 billion in damages to a class of more than 250,000 home sellers. Under antitrust law, that figure can be tripled to over $5 billion, at the court ...
The new rules came after a series of lawsuits alleged that home sellers should not be responsible for paying the fees for buyers. NAR maintained that commissions were always negotiable.
The settlement reached by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) over real estate agent commissions could end up hurting an already beleaguered group: homebuyers.. The $418 million deal ...
Carol Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc. was a decision by the California Court of Appeal, which ruled that the "actual malice" required under California law for imposition of punitive damages is distinct from the "actual malice" required by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan to be liable for defaming a "public figure", and that the National Enquirer is not a "newspaper" for the purposes of ...
This led to a lawsuit in a federal district court that resulted in Elauf receiving $20,000 in damages. [6] [7] However, this decision was later reversed by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of Abercrombie & Fitch on the basis that Elauf did not provide the company with information about her need for an accommodation ...