This story, in slightly different form, originally appearedin the New York Law Journal.
NEW YORK CITY-The US Supreme Court announced on April 23 that itwill not hear a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality ofNew York City's rent-stabilizationlaw.
The case, Harmon v. Kimmel, 11-496, was filed againstthe city in 2008 by James Harmon and his wife,Jeanne. The couple owns an Upper West Side brownstone with sixapartments, of which three are rent stabilized. The Harmons arguedthat the 1969 rent-stabilization law, intended to respond to ahousing shortage, was an unconstitutional taking of theirproperty.
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