Henriques v. Boitano

Order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, First Department, entered March 29, 2002, which, in a holdover proceeding involving respondent tenants’ succession right to the subject apartment following the death of the tenant of record, reversed an order of the Civil Court, New York County (Debra Rose Samuels, J.), entered May 29, 2001, to the extent it imposed 22 NYCRR subpart 130-1 sanctions against petitioner landlord’s attorney in the form of the costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees that the tenants incurred on the landlord’s prior appeal to the Civil Court, unanimously affirmed, with…