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    By Eliot Brown 10/27/09 8:06pm

    Stuy Town’s Columbus: How a Lawyer Rediscovered an Arcane Rent Rule and Shook New York

    It didn’t take long after New York’s top court issued its major Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village ruling last week for celebrations at the East Side apartment complex to begin.

    Just after 9 a.m. on Oct. 21, the Court of Appeals handed the complex’s owners a defeat with tremendous implications—ruling that they never had the right Read More

    By Eliot Brown 3/14/09 2:07pm

    Mass Rent Re-Regulations, Payouts Will Wait in Stuy Town Case

    It seems the far-reaching impacts of last week’s tremendous Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village court ruling will wait some time to take effect.

    A court on Friday gave Stuy Town landlord Tishman Speyer a stay in having to take any actions after the decision last week, waiting until the results of an appeals process Read More

    By Eliot Brown 3/06/09 3:00pm

    After Big Stuy Town Ruling, All Eyes on Appeal

    On Thursday morning, Alexander Schmidt, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, received a phone call from an appellate court clerk. A decision was on its way about Roberts v. Tishman Speyer, the clerk said, a major rent-stabilization case in which Mr. Schmidt represented a group of tenants suing the mega-landlord of Read More

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