Occupants of a so-called “sober house” sufficiently argued they were entitled to rent-regulation protections, a Brooklyn appeals court ruled in reinstating a putative class action and ordering it to be heard by a different judge.
In an unsigned opinion, an Appellate Division, Second Department, panel reversed Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Bernadette Bayne’s (See Profile) dismissal in 2011 of DiGiorgio v. 1109-1113 Manhattan Ave. Partners, 2011-08610, and ordered it to be heard by another judge. The panel pointed to “repeated statements made by the Supreme Court during oral argument, which exhibited bias against the plaintiffs.”
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