Central Plains Co. v. City of White Plains

In this declaratory judgment action the plaintiffs, property owners and landlords, claim to be aggrieved by a rent control law adopted by the Common Council of the City of White Plains which they seek to have nullified. There are no factual disputes involved in this appeal. After both sides moved for summary judgment, the Special Term granted judgment to the plaintiffs, declared the resolution illegal, and thereby abrogated the city’s rent control law.

*328The authority which permits the city to declare a housing emergency and impose local rent control is embodied in the Emergency Tenant…