Late last year, New York City property owner and landlord James
Harmon asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the
constitutionality of New York’s rent control and rent stabilization
laws, arguing that the government’s actions deprive him of his
property without providing just compensation as required by the
Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Court hasn’t decided
yet on whether or not it will take the case, though the justices
have asked New York to respond to Harmon’s request that the case be
heard.
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Writing in The Washington Post, columnist George Will urges the Supreme Court to take up the legal challenge filed against New York City’s rent control laws by property owner and landlord James D. Harmon Jr.: Rent control is unconst... Read Post
James Harmon, a Manhattan landlord on West 76th Street near Central Park is going to the United States Supreme Court contending that New York City’s rent laws constitute a “taking” of his property without just compensation, and viol... Read Post