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Housting/Civil Rights Victories
Posted on Nov 3, 2011
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Client C.B. was a tenant in a rent-controlled building. Her apartment had been her home for the past fifteen years. Earlier, she sustained a traumatic brain injury when a tree branch fell on her head. As a result, she became a "pack-rat", and her apartment was a mess. Interestingly, though her apartment would have seemed like a mess to other people, the arrangement of her belongings made "sense" to her and actually helped her remember important things. Her landlord wanted C.B. out of her unit, so that the landlord could rent it to someone else and charge a higher rent. The landlord claimed that C.B.'s mess constituted a fire-hazard, and attempted to evict her.
Mr. Lagstein successfully defended C.B., and achieved victory mostly through an aggressive cross-examination of the landlord, which revealed troubling inconsistencies in her testimony.
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