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  • 'Golub' Notice - Reuse After Discontinuance of Proceeding
  • 'Golub' Notices - Appellate Term Declines to Extend 'Landaverde'
  • 'Grimm v. DHCR' R.I.P. Four-Year Rule?
  • 'Rizzo II' - Court of Appeals Rejects 'New' Evidence
  • 'Yellowstone' Injunction - Application Frequently, But Not always, Granted
  • 'Yellowstone' Injunction - Court Refuses to Enforce Waiver in Lease
  • 'Yellowstone' Injunctions - Ruling Shows Approval Not Foregone Conclusion
  • 'Yellowstone' Update: When Courts Deny Relief
  • Accidental J-51 Benefits Do Not Lead to RSL Coverage
  • Actual Partial Evictions - Appellate Court Recoils From 'Harsh' Result
  • Administrative Delay - Majority Applies New Law, Finds Overcharge
  • Affidavit of Service - Late Filing: Basis for Dismissal or Correctable?
  • After Notice, Accrual Date Is Key to Rent Acceptance Issue
  • Appellate Court Deals a Blow To Owners of Loft Units
  • Appellate Courts Stress Finality of Stipulations
  • Appellate Division Dismisses Trial Court Ruling in 'Mogi'
  • Appellate Term Governs J-51 Calcuations for Now
  • Applying Rule, court Voids Lease Renewal Option Clause
  • Attorney's Fees May Be Awarded Without a Holding on the Merits
  • Attorney's Fees - Pleadings Can Be Judicial Admission
  • Being a Marlboro Man In Your Own Home
  • Case Highlights Fact-Specific Nature of Repair Issues
  • Court Accepts New Evidence In an Article 78 Proceeding
  • Court Confirms Board Authority To Increase Rents
  • Court Grapples with Noise in the City That Never Sleeps
  • Court Lifts Bankruptcy Stay, Clearing the Way for Eviction
  • Courts Differ on Rights of Tenants in Illegal Lofts
  • Courts Differ on Timing Issues In Owner-Occupancy Cases
  • Court Splits on Major Capital Improvement Policy
  • Damaged Buildings - Must a Landlord Restore Tenants to Occupancy?
  • Damages - Second Department Finds No Duty to Mitigate
  • Departments Divide Over Loft Law Ruling
  • DHCR's Major Capital Improvement Policy Upheld
  • DHCR Clarifies Ruling; Bill Suggests Relief to Landlords
  • Domestic Partners - Refusal to Add Gay Life Partner to Lease Upheld
  • Dropping Mitchell-Lama Not Itself 'Unique or Peculiar'
  • Ejectment Granted - Co-op Cities 'Undesirable, Objectionable' Conduct
  • Electrical Shutoff - Self-help Relief for Nonpayment of Bills
  • Equitable Relief Under 'J.N.A. Realty Corp.'
  • Eviction Denied - Judge Confronts Multi-Faceted Issues After Fire, Repairs
  • Expiration of Cure Period has Dire Consequences
  • Fair Market Rents - Court of Appeals Limits Liability to Current Owner
  • First Department Allows Class Actions to Proceed May 1, 2013
  • Flaws in Content of Notice Doom Summary Proceedings
  • Four-Year Rule Continues to Bedevil the Courts
  • Holdover Tenant Liability - Panel Upholds Incoming Tenant's Claim
  • Hot Tips on Ways to Lose Your Summary Proceeding
  • Is a "Lease" a Lease, or Something Else?
  • Issues Involving the Signing of Predicate Notices
  • J-51 Renovations - Court Addresses City Program, Four-Year Rule
  • Judge Faults Procedure For Terminating Tenancy
  • Limitation of Remedies - Clause Bars Claim for Specific Performance
  • Loft Law - Departments Split Over Stabilization Status
  • Loft Law - ETPA Status Denied to Illegal Units
  • Luxury Deregulation - Tenant Who Filed 'Amended' Return Loses in Court
  • Major Capital Improvement 'Useful Life' Requirement
  • Mitchell-Lama - Owner of Former Units Can File for Rent Hike
  • Mitigation of Damages - What Is the Story? Two Decisions Leave Questions
  • Multiple Dwelling Rule - Changed Consequences for Non-Compliance
  • No Surreptitious Sublet When Tenant Surrenders Lease
  • Notice to Cure - Scope of Demand May Make Proceeding Defective
  • Owner Occupancy - Grappling With the Adequacy of Predicate Notice
  • Owner Occupancy Notice Must State Facts, Panel Says
  • Owner Occupancy - Ruling Approves Multiple Apartment Recoveries
  • Owner-Recovered Units - Panel Finds Law Imposes No Limit on Evictions
  • Parties' Rights When Elevator Service Is Delayed
  • Predicate Notices - 'Danyluk' Court Helps Clarity Requirements
  • Predicate Notice - Timing Is of the Essence in Ability to Reuse
  • Preferential Rent - Court Rejects Agency Interpretation of 2003 Statute
  • Preferential Rent - Despite Attempts at Clarification, Disputes Abound
  • Procedural Issues - Avoiding Dismissal on Non-Substantive Grounds
  • Procedural Issues - Avoiding Non-Substantive Litigation Land Mines
  • Procedural Issues - Practitioners' Focus Should Extend Beyond Merits
  • Profiteering - Split Panel Finds Codes Does Not Allow Eviction
  • Rent Abatement for Natural Disasters: One Size Does Not Fit All February 6, 2013
  • Rent Control - First Department Splits on Hardship Eviction
  • Rent Demands Revisted
  • Rent Gouging - Courts Unsympathetic to Tenants Who Overcharge
  • Rent Overcharge: Supreme Court Tackles Four-Year Rule
  • Rent Overcharges - After 24 Years, Four-Year Rule Still Vexing
  • Rent Overcharges - Treble Damages for a Previous Owner's Conduct
  • Rent Stabilization: Owner Can't Give Back J-51 Benefits
  • Rent Stabilization - 'Horizontal Multiple Dwellings' Through History
  • Rent Stabilization - A Luxury Decontrol Regulation Survives
  • Rent Stabilization - Appellate Division Splits on 'Snowbird' Case
  • Rent Stabilization - Court Applies Four-Year Overcharge Rule
  • Rent Stabilization - Courts Guided by Program's Purpose
  • Rent Stabilization - Court Strikes Down Unlawful Stipulation
  • Rent Stabilization - Late-Appealing Tenants Allowed to Join Suit
  • Rent Stabilization - When Will 'Public Policy' Void a Settlement?
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  • Self-help: a Troublesome Doctrine for Some Judges?
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  • The Gersten Ruling Some Clarification Post-Roberts
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