Nordred Realties, Inc. v. Langley

In this proceeding to dispossess the tenant for nonpayment of an increased rent, he defends by reason of the conceded fact that the landlord has violated section 216 of article 7 of the Multiple Dwelling Law during the. period for which the tenant has defaulted in the payment of the rent. The landlord urges that subdivision 3 of section 302 of the Multiple Dwelling Law (as added by Laws of 1938, chap. 675), the so-called Minkoff Act, on which the tenant relies, is violative of the Constitutions of the State of New York and of the United States in that it takes property without due process of…