Amanuensis, Ltd. v. Brown

At a time when the basic fairness and reasonableness of the rules of law regulating relations between landlords and residential tenants are under cogent and persuasive challenge, these nonpayment proceedings against three tenants raise questions of grave importance concerning the capacity of our courts to adapt older doctrines to the requirements of fair treatment for tenants living today in multiple dwellings, and most especially fair treatment for those who are poor and without resources.

*16The most urgent question is whether this court is required to issue warrants of eviction for nonpayment…