Legal Opinion

Inganamort v. Borough of Fort Lee

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided June 25, 1973PublishedCited by 120 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*527The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Weintrattb, C. J.

The single question is whether a municipality has the power to adopt a rent control ordinance. In the Fort Lee and River Edge cases the ordinances were upheld, 120 N. J. Super. 286 (Law Div. 1972); in the North Bergen case the ordinance was struck down. The decisions followed upon different readings of Wagner v. City of Newark, 24 N. J. 467 (1957). We granted certification of the appeals to the Appellate Division before consideration there.

We must assume there is a critical shortage of the housing covered by the several ordinances here…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Tietjens v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1949
  2. 8200 Realty Corp. v. LindsayNew York Court of Appeals · 1970
  3. Teeval Co. v. SternNew York Court of Appeals · 1950
  4. Heubeck v. Mayor of BaltimoreCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
  5. City of Miami Beach v. Fleetwood Hotel, Inc.Supreme Court of Florida · 1972

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3Cited by120 opinions

  1. Birkenfeld v. City of BerkeleyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1976
  2. Fisher v. City of BerkeleyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1984
  3. Trentacost v. BrusselSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1980
  4. Hutton Pk. Gardens v. West Orange Town CouncilSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1975
  5. Brunetti v. Borough of New MilfordSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1975

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