· 2/26/2002
Housing Authority & Urban Redevelopment Agency v. Taylor
Citations
- 796 A.2d 193
- 171 N.J. 580
- 2002 N.J. LEXIS 55
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- concluding that federal law prevents inclusion of attorneys’ fees and late charges as additional rent in evictions from federally funded housing projects
- holding that federal law prohibits collection of “additional rent” in summary dispossess proceeding from defaulting public housing tenant
- holding that federal law prohibits collection of \additional rent\ in summary dispossess proceeding from defaulting public housing tenant
- holding that “the Housing Authority may not recover attorneys’ fees and late charges as additional rent in a summary dispossess proceeding”
- “New Jersey courts long have held that parties to a residential lease may treat attorneys’ fees and other costs related to an eviction as ‘additional rent”
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Judges: Zazzali
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