A state appeals court on Thursday reinstated a putative class action on behalf of apartment tenants who were charged a flat $400 fee any time the landlord consulted its in-house attorney to enforce lease provisions.
The suit was improvidently dismissed, the judges said, finding viable causes of action in the plaintiffs’ allegations that the landlords imposed charges on their tenants, denominated as attorneys’ fees, that exceeded the actual cost for in-house legal representation.
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