Landlord-TenantCourt Warned That "Practice of ‘Robo-Signing’ Is as Intolerable in Residential Housing Court Proceedings, as" the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Jonathan Lippman Found the Practice to Be in Residential Foreclosure ActionsDepending on the Credibility of the Witness or if the Witness Fails to Appear, Matter May Be Referred to the District Attorney
ACivil Court judge explained that 14 cases had been submitted to the court for entry of default judgments and issuance of warrants of eviction. The court consolidated the actions for purposes of the subject decision. The "[c]ommon factors shared in these fourteen (14) consolidated cases," involving "eleven (11) different petitioners…include: (1) all the petitioners are represented by the same attorney; (2) each affidavit in support of the entry of the default judgment is sworn to by the same individual, to wit: ['A']; (3) the affiant claims to be an employee of each named petitioner in each of the fourteen (14) cases; (4) all fourteen (14) affidavits are notarized by the same individual; and (5) each of the fourteen (14) documents submitted by the eleven (11) different named [petitioner] entities," essentially contained identical wording. The only differences were the dates of execution.
