NEW YORK CITY-Three landlord organizations and two building owners filed suit on Monday in New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tenant protection initiative.
The suit seeks a ruling by the court that deems many of the new regulations and actions of Gov. Cuomo's State Tenant Protection Unit "invalid and unenforceable," according to the Wall Street Journal.
The building owners charge in the litigation that the tenant protection unit and recent regulatory changes violate state law and "represent an agency's dramatic intrusion into the legislative and judicial areas, usurping powers specifically enumerated to the legislative and judiciary branches of government."
While tenant advocates say that the regulation changes were "extremely minor," building owners charge that the regulation changes adopted on Jan. 8, tilt the balance of regulatory power more in favor of tenants. See story in the Wall Street Journal.
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