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 tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court, giving landlord a judgment of possession and money judgment of $4,900. Tenant could avoid eviction by...
Landlord sued to evict tenant who kept a dog in violation of his lease and didn't remove the dog after landlord sent tenant a notice to cure. Tenant then complained to the State Division of Human Rights (DHR),...
Two tenants sued landlord in federal court, claiming that it violated their rights under the Fair Housing Act and the New York State Fire Prevention and Building Code. Tenants said they were disabled and that...
Landlord sued to evict 22 tenants in separate holdover proceedings. Tenants together filed a lawsuit in federal court to move the cases there. Tenants claimed that landlord violated their rights under the Fair...
Section 8 tenant's lease prohibited her from keeping dogs or cats as pets. At some point tenant got a dog, which landlord allowed her to keep as an accommodation for unspecified reasons. Landlord denied tenant...
Section 8 tenant sued landlord, several of her neighbors, and a police officer claiming discrimination based on gender and disability in violation of laws including the Fair Housing Act (FHA), Americans with...
Tenant, a community advocate and housing specialist focusing on foreclosure and eviction prevention, sued the City of New York, several Housing Court judges, the police, and her former landlord. She claimed that,...
Tenant filed a housing discrimination complaint with the State Division of Human Rights (DHR). DHR dismissed the complaint after an investigation, finding no probable cause to believe that landlord had engaged in the...
Two developmentally disabled residents lived in separate supervised group homes. After dating for seven years, they got married and sought an accommodation so that they could live together at one of the group homes....
Tenant complained to the NY State Division of Human Rights (DHR) that landlord discriminated against her based on disability. The DHR ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Landlord's offer to tenant of a...
Transgender woman, diagnosed with gender identify disorder (GID), was arrested for a drug offense and entered a plea agreement to participate in a residential drug treatment program as an alternative to prison....
