ATTORNEY'S FEES

Successor Tenant Who Won Case Gets Attorney Fees for His Self-Representation Time

October 28, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant based on nonprimary residence. Tenant didn't appear, but her son successfully claimed succession rights. He appeared without an attorney. The court and appeals court...

Tenant Gets No Attorney's Fees from DHCR in Rent Overcharge Case

September 22, 2024    

Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA dismissed the complaint, finding that the apartment wasn't rent stabilized. Tenant appealed and won, in part. The DHCR found that the apartment was rent...

Former Employee, Now Tenant, Gets $60K in Attorney's Fees After Eviction Case Dismissed

September 20, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict an employee from an apartment in its building after his employment was terminated. Landlord claimed the apartment use was incidental to the employment. The court dismissed the case, then denied...

Tenant Gets $60,000 in Attorneys' Fees in Case Involving Improper Deregulation

February 26, 2024    

Landlord sued tenant, seeking a declaration that his apartment was deregulated. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized and had been overcharged. He asked the court to dismiss the complaint, to find a rent...

Tenant Entitled to Attorney's Fees After Nonprimary Residence Action Dismissed

January 28, 2024    

Landlord sued in state Supreme Court to eject rent-stabilized tenant based on nonprimary residence. The court granted tenant's request to dismiss the case because landlord had vitiated its termination notice by...

Appeals Court Awards Attorney Fees to Tenant's Lawyers Based on Dismissal of Landlord's Claim

July 26, 2023    

Landlord sued attorneys who represented a tenant in its building that landlord had recently acquired. Landlord claimed that the attorneys made statements to media concerning landlord's alleged harassment of the...

DHCR Properly Limited Attorney Fees Awarded to Tenants in Regina Case Rent Recalculation

July 26, 2023    

Tenants signed a two-year unregulated lease in August 2005 at an initial rent of $5,195 per month. Landlord had removed the apartment from rent stabilization in 2003 under high-rent vacancy deregulation provisions of...

Tenant Gets Attorney's Fees in Civil Contempt Motion Against Landlord

February 23, 2023    

Tenant sued landlord in an HP proceeding. Landlord failed to appear in court, and after inquest, the court ruled that landlord was in civil contempt of the court's January 2022 default order, had engaged in...

Co-op Shareholder Tenants Get Attorneys' Fees in Mold Case

November 24, 2022    

Cooperative shareholder tenants sued landlord co-op corporation in an HP proceeding, claiming that there were hazardous violations based on mold conditions in their apartments. They further claimed the condition was...

Landlord Challenges Legal Fees Awarded to Tenant in Overcharge Case

April 17, 2022    

A Mount Vernon tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and awarded him attorney's fees. Landlord appealed and argued that, because tenant was represented by Legal Services of Hudson Valley...

Tenant Waited Until PAR Filing to Seek Attorney's Fees

January 25, 2022    

Tenant complained of improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. Tenant moved into the apartment in 2012 at an initial rent of $2,100 per month. The building was subject to a J-51 tax benefit from July 1,...

Tenant Gets Attorney's Fees After Landlord Discontinues Eviction Proceeding

December 14, 2021    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for a lease violation based on tenant's failure to install rugs and padding in his apartment, which created noise that disturbed other tenants. Landlord later asked the court's...