Representative Cases

Real Estate

  

• Judge Puri is well versed in real property matters, from commercial real estate disputes to property damage cases to nuisance, HOA and lease disputes. As a settlement judge, Judge Puri handled dozens of MSCs involving property disputes.

  

• Nuisance liability case where neighbor alleged improperly maintained drainage pipes on adjacent property caused damage. Extensive expert testimony involved and case turned on whether negligence elements met. Case resolved short of trial.

  

• Complicated specific performance case based on multiple easements involving several homeowners and beach access.  Issues included deciding which parties were responsible for upkeep and determining if certain homeowners had unreasonably interfered with other right to use. Case settled.

• Judge Puri’s trial court ruling upheld on appeal: holding that a landlord’s termination of tenancy notice was defective when it failed to strictly comply with proper notice requirements under San Francisco’s rent ordinance.

• Complicated dispute over $30M worth of Bay Area properties, acquired over decades, held in various trusts where warring factions were close family members. The case settled with mediator’s proposal.

• Declaratory relief action by commercial property owners to invalidate leases