November 2009
Ronald L. Davison and Richard T. Welch are representing the landlord of a shopping center who leased space to a nationwide franchisor claiming that it fraudulently induced the plaintiff landlord to assign the lease to a shell entity which subsequently defaulted on the lease. The assignee has been forced into bankruptcy, and the plaintiff claims that the fraud scheme was perpetrated on a wholesale basis and involves numerous other landlords across the country. The case is pending in U.S. District Court.
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