After working 5 years as an Assistant D.A. in Manhattan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Designate Sonia Sotomayor worked at the Pavia & Harcourt corporate law firm between 1984 and 1991, eventually becoming a law firm partner of a Manhattan landlord named George Pavia--who owned an apartment building at 18 East 73rd Street.
Ironically, during the period when former New York City criminal prosecutor Sotomayor worked at Pavia & Harcourt (and sat on the State of New York Mortgage Agency's board of directors) her law firm partner apparently was violating New York City's Rent Stabilization Law. As a December 10, 2006 article in the New York Times noted:
"Mr. Pavia bought his building in 1977 for $365,000, renovating its first three floors as his family’s residence and allotting the four apartments above as rental units….
"In the fall of 1996, Mr. Couri [Pavia’s Tenant] signed a standard two-year lease with a monthly rent of $1,780….
"…Mr. Couri once retained, Ronald L. Kuby… Mr. Kuby said he considered Mr. Pavia a bad landlord who bullied his tenants. ..
“Mr. Couri did some digging of his own in 1999 and, after inquiring with neighbors, discovered that 18 East 73rd Street was subject to rent-stabilization laws; he says he was incensed that Mr. Pavia had not notified his tenants of this fact.
"New York City established rent control in 1943 to help curb rapidly inflating rents during World War II. Today, some one million New York apartments are subject to rent-control or rent-stabilization laws...Supporters argue that the practice keeps centrally located housing available and affordable for those with lower incomes.
"After New York state housing authorities notified Mr. Pavia in 2002 that his building was subject to rent stabilization, he spent several months disputing the judgment…
“Meanwhile, Mr. Pavia began eviction proceedings against Mr. Couri in 2002, heightening a series of legal battles.
"As tensions between Mr. Pavia and Mr. Couri reached a boiling point, Apartment 3B endured its own stresses. Mrs. Couri says she was painting on her terrace in 2004 when heavy chunks of ice that had settled on its transparent rooftop caused the structure to collapse in an avalanche of glass. ..
"Mr. Couri filed a complaint with New York City officials, who fined Mr. Pavia $2,500 for construction violations and filing false permits and ordered him to rebuild a section of his brownstone according to code. And as the terrace was no longer deemed to be `living space, Mr. Pavia was forced to lower Mr. Couri’s rent to $1,490 a month and pay him a refund of $4,000…
"So far the law has not been on Mr. Pavia’s side. In nearly three years of eviction attempts, the court has repeatedly said that Mr. Pavia has been unable to prove that Mr. Couri is a `nuisance' or has engaged in `criminal harassment.’”
But maybe Manhattan Landlord-Lawyer Pavia’s luck in court will begin to change if a former partner in his corporate law firm is now allowed to take a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court bench?
For more info about U.S. Supreme Court Justice-Designate Sotomayor's former law firm partner at Pavia & Harcourt, you can check out the following link:
http://www.pavialaw.com/attorneys/bios/pavia_g.cfm
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Couri was found by jury to be a nuisance, was evicted from the apartment and ordered to pay all back rent.
Retaliatory evictions of tenants who assert their legal rights by a Manhattan landord is as illegal, under New York City's Rent Stabilization Law, as failing to register buildings that are subject to the Rent Stabilization Law with New York State's Division of Housing and Community Renewal [DHCR]--even if your current or former law firm partner is a former Assistant District Attorney, a federal judge or a Supreme Court Justice-Designate.
But it doesn't look like Couri (or any other New York City tenant) would be able to get much of a fair trial if he tried appealing to a U.S. Supreme Court which includes the former law firm partner of Manhattan landlord Pavia as a Supreme Court Justice.
Speaking of former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Sotomayor, does anyone know whether or not the Obama White House has yet released the names of all the Manhattan defendants that U.S. Supreme Court Justice-Designate Sotomayor prosecuted between 1979 to 1984, so that U.S. civil liberties lawyers can try to determine which defendants may have been wrongfully convicted or excessively sentenced as a result of Sotomayor's past prosecutorial activities?
the pavias appear to have 'gotten to jsc madden, as she deprived couri a fair trial precluded material evidence, ecb court decisions find ing pavia guilty of over 7 violations and madden allowed letters into evidence barred by res-judicata. joan madden surely was compromised by pavia we will see how this all sifts out in time
GEORGE PAVIA AND HIS WIFE ANTONIA HAVE ENGAGED IN TAX FRAUD AND FRAUD ON THE COURT,DESPERATE TO AVOID RENT STABLIZATION, GEORGE PAVIA IS A LIAR AND USED THE MADDEN COURT TO DEFRAUD MR. COURI
Pavia was found by the ECB Court to have engaged in fraud and perjury at that Court JSC Acosta and JSC Lebideff and the DHCR found the Pavias to be liars and unreliable in various Court Documents
Perhaps the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee should now invite Supreme Court Justice-Designate Sotomayor's former law firm partner, New York City Landlord Pavia, to appear before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and clarify the legal basis for his apparent violation of New York City's Rent Stabilization Law and retaliatory eviction of his rent-stabilized tenant?
Tenants in the United States would rather have a former tenants lawyer sitting on the Supreme Court bench rather than a former legal partner of a New York City landlord who apparently violated the legal rights of his tenants.
george and antonia pavia stole mr couri's rent rights by the misuse of the joan madden court. as a stabilized building on east 73rd st nyc its value was deminished by millions. pavia via his lawyer jay itkowitz put madden in their pocket. madden rewrote court rules, nusuance statutes cplr and evidense rules so the pavias corrupted the court and the kangaroo jury. madden was 'bought off' no if ands or buts. the paviaswere desperate to bury mr couri and paid the 'freight' to get rid of him at least for now because couri in our view will nail the pavias and expose the corrupt madden court.
take a look at scamraiders.com,-- any one interested will learn what a thief george pavia is and lear more about jim couri
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