You're not going to get anywhere suing the City. I would file a criminal complaint for the theft. Get the Sheriff's Deputies over there next time...

It depends on the exchange leading up to the offer of money. If you threatened to sue, then yes you can accept money. If you threatened to turn...

There are a couple of things you can do. You can try to put a lien on their house. You will have to wait to be paid until the house transfers...

You likely have to hunt owner's insurance company down. I do it all the time for my clients. You would greatly benefit from working with an...

My area of practice is personal injury (car accidents, etc) but I know that as an occupier of land, you have rights. They cannot just come and...

If you mean that your insurance will only pay you the totaled value of the car less $20k, then I think you may have a bad faith claim against them....

You only have to put down information that you know. They cannot require you to provide information you cannot obtain. Sounds like you might need...

You are liable, but your liability is diminished significantly by the doctrine of assumption of risk. I'd say he assumed about 99.99% of the risk...

There's interesting contractual issues going on here, but the heart of the matter is that you took a $2k loan from this guy and haven't paid him...

What can I do? What recourse do I have ?

If your stuff was worth $10k or less, you can file a case in small claims court and take your former landlord to court. You will need to have an...