Legal Opinion
Alfonso v. Rosso
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided December 10, 1987PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Lewis R. Friedman, J.
Judiciary Law § 773 provides that a penalty for civil contempt is the imposition of a fine. These two cases present previously unresolved questions concerning the amount of that fine.
In both cases, on application by the petitioning tenants, the court had entered orders requiring the respondent owners to remedy conditions at their buildings. In both cases the owners have been found in civil contempt of the orders — in Alfonso respondents admitted the contempt, while in Poxt the finding was after trial.
By statute the fine may equal the actual loss to the…
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