{"id":532,"date":"2015-03-29T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=532"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:16:24","slug":"district-of-columbia-prohibits-noncompetition-clause-in-sale-of-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2015\/03\/29\/district-of-columbia-prohibits-noncompetition-clause-in-sale-of-grocery-store\/","title":{"rendered":"District of Columbia prohibits noncompetition clause in sale of grocery store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The District of Columbia \u00a0passed legislation designed to prevent\u00a0a grocery store owner from selling the property with a covenant that would have prevented the property from being used for grocery store purposes because this would deny residents in the neighborhood easy access to a grocery store.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/mike-debonis\/wp\/2014\/10\/06\/safeways-palisades-plans-at-issue-in-tuesday-d-c-council-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">read article<\/a>\u00a0 The legislation is similar to the ruling of the New Jersey court in Davidson Bros, Inc. v. D. Katz &amp; Sons, Inc., 643 A.2d 642 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 1994).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/real-estate-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Real Estate Transactions<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/restraints-on-alienation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Restraints on Alienation<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/servitudes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Servitudes<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District of Columbia \u00a0passed legislation designed to prevent\u00a0a grocery store owner from selling the property with a covenant that would have prevented the property from being used for grocery store purposes because this would deny residents in the neighborhood easy access to a grocery store.\u00a0read article\u00a0 The legislation is similar to the ruling of the New Jersey court in Davidson Bros, Inc. v. D. Katz &amp; Sons, Inc., 643 A.2d 642 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 1994).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate-transactions","category-restraints-on-alienation","category-servitudes"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}