By Katheryn Tucker | October 10, 2018
Landlord tries to persuade Georgia Supreme Court not to hold him accountable for a disfiguring attack after his tenants' pit bulls broke out and ran off.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Scott E. Mollen | October 9, 2018
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses three landlord-tenant cases: “Landucci v. de la Rosa,” “Edwards v. N.Y.C. Hous. Auth.,” and “Capital 155 E. 55th v. Garden House School of N.Y.”
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Scott E. Mollen | October 2, 2018
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses the adverse possession case “Yee v. Panousopoulos,” the landlord-tenant case, “Matter of Tejada,” and the foreclosure case “Courchevel 1850 LLC v. Stern.”
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Warren A. Estis and Michael E. Feinstein | October 2, 2018
In their Landlord/Tenant column, Warren Estis and Michael Feinstein discuss Webster Ave. Holdings v. Pough, a case which “stands as a reminder that landlords must be diligent in enforcing their rights under the lease to collect rent arrears, and that delays in commencing a proceeding could provide the tenant with a “stale rent” defense.”
By Colby Hamilton | September 21, 2018
A U.S. magistrate judge ruled that an attorney's role in requesting medical information from an ill tenant requesting an emotional support animal wasn't shielded by privilege.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | September 20, 2018
In Becrett v. R&H Resources, a three-judge panel ruled 2-1 to uphold a trial judge's denial of strip mall owner Becrett's bid to reopen a lease dispute involving one of its tenants that had been tossed out on summary judgment.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Scott E. Mollen | September 18, 2018
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses 'Sanjana v. King,' where the sellers were entitled to keep the deposit where the buyers failed to obtain a mortgage commitment and timely cancel the contract; '230 E. 48th St. LLC v. Campisi,' where the court found that by renting her stabilized apartment through Airbnb, the tenant “commercialized her apartment” and treated it as a de facto hotel; and 'E. Midtown Plaza Hous. Co. v. Gamble,' where the landlord established entitlement to summary judgment of possession of the subject apartment based on illegal use of the premises.
By Mike Schneider and Alanna Durkin Richer | September 13, 2018
The clock began ticking late last month for hundreds of Puerto Rican evacuees who rely on federal assistance to pay for hotel rooms. A federal judge in Massachusetts set Friday as the deadline for the vouchers to end.
By Scott E. Mollen | September 11, 2018
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses two landlord-tenant cases: “Park N. Realty v. Cheik,” where the court dismissed a claim for possessory judgment based on laches, and “Matter of Sung v. Jiha,” where tenants defeated NYC Department of Finance's effort to recoup DRIE credits.
By Scott E. Mollen | September 4, 2018
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses two commercial landlord-tenant cases: “325 E. 14th St. Corp. v. Marie France Realty,” where neither party was a “prevailing party”; and “D'Jesus Rest. Corp. v. 1133 Boston Rd. LLC,” where the court held that the landlord did not tortiously interfered with tenant's sale of her restaurant.
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