CITYWIDE – THE SUPREME COURT on Tuesday left intact two lower court decisions that ruled NYC’s rent stabilization law is constitutional, reports amNY, in what several tenant groups hailed as a victory for lower-income New Yorkers. Landlord groups had appealed the law, which was amended in 2019, on the grounds that the city’s eviction regulations constituted a violation of the Fifth Amendment, which bars the government from seizing property without compensation; the Supreme Court declined to hear the challenges, although Justice Gorsuch did indicate he would have liked to proceed.
A similar case brought by city landlords was declined by the Supreme Court this February.
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