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...office rents to plunge another 5% to 10% and vacancies in commercial real estate to exceed 20% by the middle of 2010 - surpassing the 18% vacancy peak hit during the early 1990s crisis. The doom-and-gloom scenario will likely lead to higher default rates on commercial property loans held by banks and those pooled into mortgage-backed securities...
...believe that the next five years will be one of the most attractive real estate investment periods in the past 50 years," says Starwood Property Trust Inc. (STWD), an affiliate of closely-held Starwood Capital Group, in its July 29 IPO filing. The company, which is headed by real estate mogul Barry Sternlicht and went public last week, believes real estate became "significantly overpriced" in the go-go years of the past decade, and that "a significant price correction" is under...
...panel ruled against Davis, and this is where the Supreme Court comes in. Numerous times since the 1996 law was passed, the high court has ruled that the limits imposed by the AEDPA are valid - when they restrict the lower courts. But the Justices held open their own prerogative to issue a writ of habeas corpus if so moved. In other words, the lower federal courts had no power to hear another word from Davis. But he could make his pitch directly to the Supreme Court. Prisoners have been trying for nearly 50 years without success to get the Justices...
...execution of an innocent prisoner, a seemingly obvious assumption that has never been formally declared? If so, what new filters of trial procedure and judicial review will have to be installed to reach that level of certainty and perfection? In his dissent, Scalia wrote, "This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent...
...undermining the regime. On Aug. 16, Reiss was released on bail on the condition that she remain under house arrest at the French embassy until the announcement of the case's verdict. Last week, Franco-Iranian national Nazak Afshar, who worked in the French embassy in Tehran and was held on similar charges, was released to the embassy to await a verdict in her trial. In both cases French officials attributed the release of the women to intervention by what an official in Paris called "our Syrian friends." (See pictures of Iran's presidential election and its turbulent aftermath...