A ruling by a judge who “wrote the book” on landlord-tenant practice criticizes the way some lawyers are handling evictions.

In Cisero v. Rosen, ESX-LT-27084-12, Essex County Judge Mahlon Fast threw out an eviction complaint for violating the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and disapproved of the practice of attaching FDCPA notices to eviction complaints.

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