Category : Lawsuits

Renegade intern lands ATCO in hot water with data company
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Renegade intern lands ATCO in hot water with data company

REW
by REW4067
Months after commercial real estate data company Reis sued ATCO Properties & Management for stealing hundreds of reports from the company’s website without paying, a judge has rejected ATCO’s motion to dismiss the suit. In March of this year, Reis filed a complaint in New York Supreme Court alleging that...
Trade Secrets Act invoked for first time in listing dispute
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Trade Secrets Act invoked for first time in listing dispute

REW
by REW2701
A dispute over Long Island City listings has been moved to federal court and for Compass, which stands accused of boosting data from Modern Spaces, that’s a good thing. Filed under the Trade Secrets Act, the move gives the firm a chance to get out from under a temporary restraining order imposed in state court
Tenants win right to live rent-free in Downtown building
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Tenants win right to live rent-free in Downtown building

Kyle Campbell
by Kyle Campbell686
A federal judge has given a group of renegade Downtown tenants the green light to keep living rent-free. The 17 residents of 533 Greenwich Street, a rundown former warehouse in Hudson Square, haven’t paid a penny in rent for 25 years. Now, thanks to a 1980s law that protects New...
Lawsuit: Houlihan Lawrence used dual agents to dupe clients
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Lawsuit: Houlihan Lawrence used dual agents to dupe clients

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by REW4252
A class-action lawsuit filed against a leading Westchester brokerage accuses the firm of using “bait-and-switch” tactics to lure clients into forfeiting their right to dedicated representation. The suit alleges that Houlihan Lawrence, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate that is active in Westchester, Fairfield, Dutchess and Putnam counties, failed to fully disclose...
Cuomo calls for Kushner probe after more tenant allegations surface
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Cuomo calls for Kushner probe after more tenant allegations surface

REW
by REW1625
New York State investigators have piled onto the mounting tenant harassment probe into the Kushner Companies’ rent-regulated apartments. Lawsuits brought by the Housing Rights Initiative, the latest on behalf of former tenants of the Austin Nichols House in Williamsburg, accuse the company of raising rents and using disruptive construction to...
Cuomo taps Garfinkel for State real estate board
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Cuomo taps Garfinkel for State real estate board

REW
by REW1599
Neil B. Garfinkel, best know as REBNY’s in-house legal eagle, has been  appointed to the New York State Real Estate Board by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. Garfinkel, managing partner at Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP (AGMB) in Charge of its Real Estate and Banking Practices, will serve for two years....
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City Council approves Jerome Avenue rezoning in Bronx

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by REW2598
The City Council has approved the rezoning of a 92-block stretch of Jerome Avenue rezoning in the Bronx. The deal is expected to pave the way for increased commercial and residential development along the corridor that has been zoned for light industrial use for years.