Richman Towers Tenants'ass'n, Inc. v. Richman Towers LLC.

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• explaining that, particularly in the absence of any legislative debate, it is fair to interpret the TOPA statute in manner that is consistent with other pre-existing laws protecting tenants
• rejecting proposed interpretation of TOPA in part because \the statute as so construed would not be workable\
• rejecting proposed interpretation of statute in part because “the statute as so construed would not be workable”
• construing another housing statute to be consistent with preexisting laws protecting tenants
• stating in TOPA context that “[c]ourts deal with the substance rather than the form of transactions and will not permit important legislative policies to be defeated by the artifices affecting legal title but not the practical consequences of the existing situation”
• “The rule of stare decisis is never properly invoked unless in the decision put forward as precedent the judicial mind has been applied to and passed upon the precise question.” (internal alterations omitted

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