LVT Number: 19478
Facts: Landlord filed a noneviction condominium conversion plan, which was approved by the state attorney general a year later, in June 2006. While the proposed plan was pending, landlord started eviction proceedings against 23 unregulated tenants whose leases expired during that period. Tenants asked the court to dismiss the eviction cases. They claimed that the Martin Act, governing condo and co-op conversions, barred landlord from evicting tenants in occupancy on the date the conversion plan was approved. Court: Tenants win.