{"id":8315,"date":"2012-04-24T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=8315"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:54:04","slug":"scotus-says-nothin-rent-stabilization-is-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=8315","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS says nothin’: rent stabilization is safe."},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote about James Harmon<\/a>, the lawyer and townhouse owner who took his libertarian-ugly case to raise the rents on his stabilized tenants, or toss them, to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court has decided, according to the AP, “Nix rent stabilize appeal.”<\/p>\n

The original reporting on this weird rich-man case was substantially more ample than…<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal from a Manhattan couple seeking to end rent-stabilization laws.<\/em><\/p>\n

James and Jeanne Harmon had lost earlier court attempts to get the laws thrown out, the most recent of which was a decision last year by the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New York. The high court refused to review that decision.<\/em><\/p>\n

The couple inherited a building James Harmon’s parents bought in the 1940s near Central Park on the upper West Side. Three of the rent-stabilized apartments have had tenants or their family members there for years.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Harmons said rent-stabilization laws force them to rent the apartments at 59% below market rate and argued that by giving the tenants lifetime tenure with succession rights, the government has illegally taken their property.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I wrote about James Harmon, the lawyer and townhouse owner who took his libertarian-ugly case to raise the rents on his stabilized tenants, or toss them, to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has decided, according to the AP, “Nix … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t