2nd Circuit Panel Casts Doubt on Challenge to New York's Revised Eviction Protections

Comments from the bench seemed to question assertions by Randy Mastro of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher that the new measure was at odds with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month, which scrapped an earlier iteration that allowed tenants to self-certify that they had suffered financial hardship.

September 21, 2021 at 05:16 PM

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Real Estate

Tom McParland

The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit expressed skepticism Tuesday with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's argument that New York's revised eviction moratorium still did not give landlords a fair chance to pursue eviction proceedings in state court.