RHC Operating LLC v. City Of New York

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK RHC OPERATING LLC, Plaintiff, 21-CV-9322 (JPO) -v- OPINION AND ORDER CITY OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants. J. PAUL OETKEN, District Judge: Two years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered New York City almost overnight. Many hotels closed soon after, and many more laid off their workers. For a year and a half, the federal government provided supplemental unemployment benefits. When those benefits expired, the City of New York enacted a law generally requiring still-closed hotels to pay laid- off workers five hundred dollars in severance…