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Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo! Homes and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. So we’ve managed to get through all three presidential debates. But although the presidential election is (thankfully) in the home stretch, did we really learn anything new about either President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney? And more importantly, […]

Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo! Homesand is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. Deficiency judgments are probably the last thing any homeowner under threat of foreclosure wants to think about. For the uninitiated, a deficiencyis when the proceeds from a foreclosure sale, or a short sale, don’t cover the balance of the mortgage […]

The rule of law is the rule of law is the rule of law. I am repeating this because the message is just not getting through. This country was built on a system which held the rule of law in the highest regard and protected our judicial system. That is what I learned in 8th grade civics class, anyway. Whatever […]

An edited version of this post originally appeared on Yahoo! Homes and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. I am often asked how Wall Street has managed to be so reckless, with little to no regard for its customers and its investors, yet avoid any real consequence for its actions. The easy answer, if there […]

Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo! Homes and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. Well the long national nightmare is over. No, not the fraudclosure crisis. Sad to say that legal mess is still being cleaned up years after the bubble burst. I’m talking, of course, of the NFL referees lockout. Believe it […]

Quisiera que tan solo una vez los políticos le dejaran las prosas y simbolismos a los escritores de ciencia ficción. No es que yo esperaba algo diferente, pero cuando veía a Mitt Romney aceptar la nominación Republicana, escuche osadas propuestas y grandes promesas. Fue una narrativa, simple y sencillamente, entretenida, pero una que me temo no hará mucho para ayudar […]

Remember when “Corporations are people, my friend!” was the strangest thing to come out of Mitt Romney’s mouth? It speaks volumes about the problems with our political process that it took a speech we were never intended to hear to allow us to hear a politician speaking honestly and off-the-cuff. Now I am not in the business of endorsing any […]

  Since I started the South Florida Law Blog following the 2008 economic meltdown, I have made no secret of the fact that I am extremely critical of what can best be characterized as “America’s new crony capitalism.” Crony capitalism occurs where certain industries have gained undue influence in the political process and thus have curried favor unjustly from the […]