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In the October 2015 issue of New York Real Estate Law Reporter, we discussed the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Reed v. The Town of Gilbert, 135 S.Ct. 2218 (2015). In that decision, the Court applied strict scrutiny to a sign regulation, as it related to directional signs placed by a local congregation that held services at different locations each week. In April 2022, the Court took another look at the issue of strict scrutiny relating to “off-premises” signs. In the case of City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, No. 20-1029 (2022), in distinguishing the determination in Reed v. The Town of Gilbert, the majority concluded, in an opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, that strict scrutiny should not apply to determining whether the off-premises sign regulations at issue violated the First Amendment.
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By NYRE Staff
Deed from Intestate Distribtees Effective Without Involvement of Estate Administrator
Notice of Pendency Is Not an Election of Remedies That Bars Issuance of Preliminary Injunction
Junior Mortgagee Obtained Good Title Despite Defects In Judgment of Foreclosure
Limitation on Easement Width Upheld
Forged Power of Attorney Voids Documents on Which Mortgagee Relied
By NYRE Staff
Habitability and Harassment Claims Survive Motion to Dismiss
COVID-19 Does Not Trigger Frustration of Purpose or Impossibility Defenses
Tenant Entitled to Actual Damages for Landlord Breach, But Not to Suspension Payment
Renovations Qualified Apartment for High-Rent Vacancy Decontrol
COVID-19 Does Not Excuse Failure to Pay Rent
By NYRE Staff
Unit Owner Not In Possession Cannot Prevail on Wrongful Ejectment Claim
Making Sense of the 421-A Rent Concession Appeals
By Jeffrey Turkel
Landlords initially renting up new RPTL 421-a buildings routinely give incoming rent-stabilized tenants rent concessions to account for the fact that construction may be ongoing, and that there may still be punch list items in the apartments. This seemingly innocuous practice, however, has led to class-action litigation wherein tenants allege that rent concessions are part of a fraudulent scheme that results in massive building-wide overcharges under the Rent Stabilization Law.
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