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WALLS v. GIULIANI

No. 95 CV 2494.

916 F.Supp. 214 (1996)

Rose Mary WALLS, Juana Doe, Juan Garcia, Pasram Goberdhan, Juan Doe, and John Roe, as Individuals and on Behalf of All Those Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. Rudolph GIULIANI, as Mayor of the City of New York and Deborah Wright, as Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

February 8, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York City (Nancy Hirschmann, Lawrence S. Kahn, Terryl Sellers, Daniel J. Struck, of counsel), for defendants.

Michael E. Deutch, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City (Arthur Kinoy, Raymond H. Brescia, of counsel), Martin Needleman, Brooklyn Legal Services Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Paul J. Acinapura, Richard J. Wagner, of counsel), Renee Steinhagen, Public Interest Law Center at Rutgers, Newark, New Jersey, for plaintiffs.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KORMAN, District Judge.

This is one of several recent cases involving squatters who are occupying apartments in buildings acquired by the City of New York in tax foreclosure proceedings. Lord Denning has succinctly defined a squatter as "one who, without any colour of right, enters on an unoccupied house or land, intending to stay there as long as he can. He may seek to justify or excuse his conduct. He may say he was homeless...

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