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Showing posts with label Legal Updates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legal Updates. Show all posts
Thursday, October 16, 2025

New York Expands Human Rights Law to Ban Discrimination in Real Estate Appraisals

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On October 16, 2025, A6689  was signed into law and now New Yorkers are protected from discrimination in real estate appraisal services by t...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Housing Discrimination Plaintiffs Now Have Two Bites at the Apple

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Starting in 2021, every New York state housing discrimination plaintiff should bring an administrative complaint at the Division of Human R...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Legally Speaking: Legal Issues Folks are Facing in Buying/Selling/Renting this Summer

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Everyone is in the Hamptons this summer. Tenants fled here in March. They are staying even after they were supposed to go back to the city a...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

REAL ESTATE & LAW: A LOOK BACK AT 2019 AND A LOOK AHEAD

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Andrew Lieb shares some highlights of the extraordinary changes in the law that control the sales, rentals and litigation landscape of real ...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Hardwired or Sealed Smoke Detectors Required as of April 1, 2019

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New York State homeowners and real estate professionals should be aware that starting April 1, 2019, smoke detectors must either be hardwire...

New NYS Law Requires Equal Access to Diaper Changing Tables in Public Restrooms

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NYS Department of State adopted a rule amending 19 NYCRR 1219 and adding 19 NYCRR 1229 to require newly constructed buildings and buildings ...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Title Insurance Regulation 208 is Back - Soliciting Title Business is Seriously Restricted Yet Again

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On January 15, 2019, the Appellate Division, First Department, reversed the Supreme Court in New York State Land Title Associations, Inc. v....
Monday, November 26, 2018

New laws expected as Democrats take control of NYS Legislature

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This is not a politically charged article, but a functional article predicting the future. As a result of the November 6, 2018 elections, Ne...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

ATTENTION ALL EMPLOYERS | Sexual Harassment Trainings ARE NOW MANDATED IN NYS | Lieb Compliance Offers Solutions

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Every employer in New York State is required to provide employees with sexual harassment prevention training pursuant to Section 201-g of th...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

ALERT - Amended Real Estate Brokerage Regulations

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The Real Estate License Law regulations at 19 NYCRR 175.1, 175.7, 176.3, 177.3, 177.7 & 175.25 have been amended.  The industry no...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Real Estate Brokerage Regulatory Updates - 2/26/16 NYS Board of Real Estate meeting summary

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On 2/26/16 the  NYS Board of Real Estate  continued its mission of optimizing the regulation of real estate brokers in our state by holding...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Real Estate Brokerage Regulatory Updates - 11/7/15 NYS Board of Real Estate meeting summary

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On 11/7/15 the NYS Board of Real Estate continued its mission of optimizing the regulation of real estate brokers in our state by holding ...
Monday, September 07, 2015

Real Estate Brokerage Regulatory Updates - 8/16/15 NYS Board of Real Estate meeting summary

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On 8/26/15 the NYS Board of Real Estate  continued its mission of optimizing the regulation of real estate brokers in our state by holding i...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Supreme Court Rules To Remove Housing Discrimination: Landlords And Developers Beware

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The U.S. supreme court ruled that victims of discrimination under the Fair Housing Act can sue based upon a legal theory called disparate im...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

United States Supreme Court Holding: Plaintiffs Can Allege Disparate-Impact Discrimination Under Fair Housing Act

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Today, in the case Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. , the United States Supreme ...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Andrew Lieb Discussing "Top 10 Changes in Real Estate Laws of 2014" at Nassau County Bar Association (CLE Credit Available)

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Attention Nassau County Bar Association Real Property Law Committee Members - Andrew Lieb, Esq. will be speaking on ""Top Ten Cha...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Does The Fair Housing Act Cover Disparate Impact Discrimination

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Check out Andrew Lieb's latest article published in The Suffolk Lawyer. Does The Fair Housing Act Cover Disparate Impact Discriminat...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Employment Questions on Rental Applications – A Housing Discrimination No-No

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Andrew Lieb's latest article has been published in The Suffolk Lawyer. In January 2015, a new Human Rights law went into effect in S...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Top 5 New Real Estate Laws Affecting NYers in 2015

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Now that 2015 is here, NYers should know the top changes from the past year in real estate laws that affect property owners and tenants in o...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

No Fracking Way - New York to ban fracking based on adverse health data (lawsuits likely to follow)

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The Department of Environmental Conservation  (DEC) will issue a legally binding findings statement to prohibit High-Volume Hydraulic Fract...