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: New York City Landlord Tenant News

New Law Lets Tenants Sue Over Harassment

By By MANNY FERNANDEZ

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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg signed a bill into law on Thursday that for the first time gives tenants the right to sue their landlords in Housing Court for using threats and other forms of harassment to force them out.

Full post as published by New York City Landlord Tenant News on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).

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