Did you lose at DHCR because the rules changed?

[TenantNet]

HAVE YOU LOST A CASE AT THE DHCR BECAUSE THE RULES WERE CHANGED MID-STREAM?

Perhaps your lost case can be reversed or resurrected.

If you had an overcharge case, a Fair Market Rent Appeal, an MCI, a rent reduction or any case at all before the DHCR, and were told that you lost because the regulation rules or laws changed after you initially filed or put in an answer in the case, then we need to hear from you ASAP.

I am seeking to take DHCR into Federal Court in a “Class Action” or “Representative Action” proceeding, which will question the right of DHCR to change the rules during the pendency of a proceeding thereby denying or rescinding justice to tenants.

As legal counsel to the Queens League of United Tenants and being a tenant advocate, I have observed that since the early 1990’s changing the rules is utilized as a device for willfully or indifferently harming tenants to the point where I believe an attack in the Federal court is warranted.

For a tenant to hire a lawyer and make this nature of attack or even for a handful of tenants to do so, would be expensive and would also not be effective because of the limited issues upon which an individual test would have standing in the court. The lawsuit here contemplated needs many tenants to act as plaintiff so that the costs will be affordable and the range of issues will be broad enough to be able to allow for effective litigation.

CONTACT BY PHONE OR FAX:
Robert A. Katz
Attorney At Law

c/o Collins Dobkin & Miller LLP
277 Broadway, 14th Fl.
New York, NY 10013
Tele: (212) 587-2400 Ext. 13
Fax (212) 587-2410

OR

Sondra Rutherford
Tenant Advocate
P.O. Box 411, Cooper Sta.
New York, NY 10276
Tele: (212) 254-0270
Fax: (212) 505-0395

If this contemplated action occurs, it would be primarily an advocacy action, but participants would be required to cover expenses and/or compensation.