Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed that landlord's rent demand didn't provide a good faith estimate of the rent actually owed. The court agreed and dismissed the case....
Upstairs tenant sued landlord for injuries after slipping and falling on a snowy or icy condition on an outside staircase and breaking her ankle. After that case was resolved, landlord sued basement commercial tenant...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant appealed and lost. The appeals court dismissed the case because tenant failed to assemble a proper record on appeal, which should have...
Mitchell-Lama tenant's family member sought succession rights to tenant's apartment after tenant died. HPD ruled against tenant's family member, who then filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming that...
Landlord NYCHA tenant's son filed a grievance with NYCHA after tenant moved out, claiming succession rights to tenant's apartment. NYCHA ruled against tenant's son, who filed an Article 78 court appeal...
Landlord sued to evict tenant. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court that called for a judgment of possession in landlord's favor. Landlord later asked the court to amend the judgment to...
The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) sued to evict tenants from a co-op apartment. FNMA was the assignee of a successful bidder in a nonjudicial foreclosure sale of the building, and it claimed that it...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord obtained a judgment and eviction warrant based on tenant's default. The day after eviction, tenant asked the court to vacate the judgment and warrant...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for substantially breaching his lease and/or creating a nuisance by continuously failing to pay his rent on time. Landlord claimed that it had to commence seven...
Landlord sued to evict ETPA tenant. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming that she was rent controlled, not rent stabilized. Tenant claimed that she moved into the apartment on June 1, 1966, not 1986...
Tenant sued landlord NYCHA for negligence after her child was diagnosed with lead poisoning. The court ruled for landlord and dismissed the case. Tenant appealed, and the case was reopened. The rebuttable presumption...
Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant, claiming that the occupant was a licensee of former rent-stabilized tenant who no longer had a right to continue to live in the apartment after tenant died. The court ruled...
