Landlord sued to evict tenant for breaching his lease by failing to obtain prior written consent before installing a new electrical system in his apartment kitchen. Tenant claimed retaliatory eviction because he had...
Tenant sued landlord for racial discrimination after landlord refused to rent an apartment for low-income individuals to tenant. Tenant claimed that landlord violated the Fair Housing Act. The court ruled against...
Landlord sued to evict Section 8 tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed breach of the warranty of habitability and asked the court to grant a 30 percent rent abatement based on apartment conditions. At a...
Former tenant sued landlord in federal court, claiming civil rights violations due to illegal eviction and that landlord took him to criminal court. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case as frivolous. The...
Tenant sued landlord for negligence after her 2-1/2 year-old child was injured by boiling water spilled in the kitchen of tenant's apartment. While she went to the bathroom, tenant had left her three children in...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Monthly rent was $16,500 and by the time of trial, landlord claimed that tenant owed over $99,000. Tenant asked for a rent abatement for breach of the warranty of...
Tenant sued landlord for damage due to loss of personal property. Tenant was evicted by a city marshal, who removed her belongings and put them in storage. The court later restored tenant to possession. But tenant...
Landlord notified cooperative shareholder tenant in 2008 that he was in breach of his lease for failing to carpet 90 percent of his apartment floors and for refusing access to Verizon for installation of FIOS service...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent for Apartment 4D, claiming that tenant owed over $10,000 for 10 months' rent. Tenant had rented combined apartments 4C and 4D for 36 years....
The administrator of the estate of a co-op apartment owner sued to evict the owner's son after sending a 30-day termination notice. The son claimed that he was entitled to the co-op shares, had lived there for...
Tenant sued upstate landlord based on injuries she suffered in a slip and fall at her apartment. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case without a trial because tenant had signed a release in a prior court...
Rent-stabilized tenant moved into an apartment in 1991 at a monthly rent of $5,747 with a preferential rent of $3,000. Prior landlord renewed the lease a number of times at the preferential rate, but in 2004,...
