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Attorneys under attack over three-day notices.
Local tenant lawyers are using a 20-year old Federal consumer statute to attack not only the legality of the three-day notice but owners' attorneys themselves in an effort, they say, to obtain the same rights for renters as other consumers.
At the end of December, a Brooklyn Federal judge agreed with their arguments and ruled in favor of the tenant and against the attorney representing the building owner. The lawyers representing the owner's attorney are requesting permission to appeal. Owner attorneys and industry groups say the tenant bar's effort is motivated by potentially enormous class action fees as much as it is an effort to encourage renters to continue non-payment conduct under a political agenda. The tenant's attor...See the full content of this document
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