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CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT BY TENANTS AGAINST LANDLORDS ALLEGING FAILURE TO PROVIDE RENT-STABILIZED LEASES SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AT THE PRE-ANSWER STAGE (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, over a two-justice dissent, determined that the class action complaint by tenants alleging the failure to provide rent-stabilized leases should not have been dismissed at the pre-answer stage:

“Pursuant to CPLR 902, a motion to determine whether a class action may be maintained is to be made within 60 days after the time to serve the responsive pleading has expired” … . Because the time to make such a motion had not occurred, it was premature, in this case, for the court to engage in a detailed analysis of whether the requirements for class certification were met … .

It does not appear conclusively from the complaint that, as a matter of law, there is no basis for class action relief… . For example, plaintiffs allege that some defendants receive J-51 tax benefits and are therefore required to provide tenants with rent-stabilized leases but failed to do so. This claim was also made in Borden (see 24 NY3d at 390), and the Court of Appeals found that the plaintiffs satisfied the class action requirements of numerosity, predominance of common issues of law or fact, typicality of the named plaintiffs’ claims, adequate representation, and superiority of class action versus other methods (see id. at 399-400).

Although the instant action involves 11 buildings and 8 owners, all the buildings are allegedly managed by Big City Realty Management, and all the owners are allegedly part of one holding company, Big City Acquisitions. Moreover, Downing — another putative class action about J-51 (see 107 AD3d at 88) — involved “a residential complex owned by defendants” (id.). Maddicks v Big City Props., LLC, 2018 NY Slip Op 05523, First Dept 7-26-18

CIVIL PROCEDURE (CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT BY TENANTS AGAINST LANDLORDS ALLEGING FAILURE TO PROVIDE RENT-STABILIZED LEASES SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AT THE PRE-ANSWER STAGE (FIRST DEPT))/CPLR 902 (CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT BY TENANTS AGAINST LANDLORDS ALLEGING FAILURE TO PROVIDE RENT-STABILIZED LEASES SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AT THE PRE-ANSWER STAGE (FIRST DEPT))/LANDLORD-TENANT (CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT BY TENANTS AGAINST LANDLORDS ALLEGING FAILURE TO PROVIDE RENT-STABILIZED LEASES SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AT THE PRE-ANSWER STAGE (FIRST DEPT))/MUNICIPAL LAW (LANDLORD-TENANT, (CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT BY TENANTS AGAINST LANDLORDS ALLEGING FAILURE TO PROVIDE RENT-STABILIZED LEASES SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AT THE PRE-ANSWER STAGE (FIRST DEPT))

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