A Manhattan housing court judge granted summary judgment evicting a tenant after finding her testimony in a previous, discontinued illegal sublet action could be used against her in the non-primary residence case.
Judge Arlene Hahn (See Profile) ruled in a June 15 order that the illegal sublet case was “similar enough to the subject matter” of the non-primary residence case that the testimony could be used. The tenant, Urmilla Maharaj, did not have a lawyer in the earlier case, though Hahn wrote that she “was given many opportunities to get one.”
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