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Landlord Tenant Law

  • While the court will not have the opportunity to rule on the merits of the case, the facts relied upon by the Indiana Superior Court and the conclusions reached in rendering its decision are still instructive for practitioners drafting continuous-use provisions and advising clients on potential breaches or anticipatory breaches of such provisions.

    April 01, 2018Marisa L. Byram
  • What powers does the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission have to require a building owner to maintain a mechanical clock located in the interior of a building? In Save America's Clocks, Inc. v. City of New York, New York's Appellate Division, First Department, held that the Commission had power to require maintenance of the clock, and to require public access to it.

    April 01, 2018Stewart Sterk
  • Questions of Fact Bar Summary Judgment in Condominium's Claim for Improper Alterations
    Sponsor Did Not Breach Purchase Contract
    Unit Owners Did Not Have Exclusive Right to Elevator Shaft

    April 01, 2018ssalkin
  • Denial of Remaining Family Member Status Upheld
    Occupant Entitled to Succession Rights to Stabilized Apartment Even If Named Tenant Continued to Sign Leases After Moving Out
    Tenant Entitled to Succession Rights to Rent-Controlled Apartment
    Landlord Did Not Establish Use of Apartment to Facilitate Drug Trading
    421-G Buildings Subject to Luxury Deregulation
    Incarcerated Son Note Entitled to Succession Rights

    April 01, 2018ssalkin
  • Suit in Second Jurisdiction Is Duplicative
    Mailing Rent Check While Doing Unauthorized Acts Is Not Mail Fraud

    April 01, 2018ssalkin
  • What powers does the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) have to require a building owner to maintain a mechanical clock located in the interior of a building? In Save America's Clocks, Inc. v. City of New York, that issue generated a 3-2 division in the First Department, with the majority holding that the Commission had power to require maintenance of the clock, and to require public access to it.

    February 01, 2018Stewart E. Sterk
  • Town Board Failed to Take 'Hard Look' at Amendment
    Jurisdictional Determination from Army Corps
    Developer Failed to Allege Concrete Injury

    February 01, 2018ssalkin
  • Failure to Disclose Gas Tanks Does Not Constitute Contract Breach
    Divestiture Agreement
    Unrecorded Mortgage
    CEMA Suffices

    February 01, 2018ssalkin
  • A Yellowstone injunction proceeding is a proceeding in New York court in which a commercial tenant seeks to enjoin the landlord from evicting the tenant for an alleged breach of the lease. This temporary relief preserves the tenant's ability to cure should the court determine that the tenant is in breach, and thus avoid forfeiting its substantial investment in the leasehold.

    January 01, 2018Daniel A. Cohen and Fielding E. Huseth