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IN THE
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74 PINEHURST LLC ET AL.,
Petitioners,
v.
STATE OF NEW YORK ET AL.,
Respondents.
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On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI
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Jonathan M. Sperling Mark W. Mosier
S. Conrad Scott Counsel of Record
COVINGTON & BURLING LLP Kevin F. King
620 Eighth Avenue Emile Katz
New York, NY 10018 MaKade Claypool
COVINGTON & BURLING LLP
850 Tenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 662-6000
mmosier@cov.com
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
RELATED PROCEEDINGS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
Page(s)
Cases
McCarthy v. Madigan,
503 U.S. 140 (1992) .............................................. 34
Monteverde v. Pereira,
22 N.E.3d 1012 (N.Y. 2014) ................................. 31
Murr v. Wisconsin,
582 U.S. 383 (2017) ........................................ 32, 33
Other Authorities
9 NYCRR § 2520.6(o)................................................... 4
OPINION BELOW
JURISDICTION
RELEVANT PROVISIONS
The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment,
which applies to the States through the Fourteenth
Amendment, provides: “Nor shall private property be
taken for public use, without just compensation.”
INTRODUCTION
New York’s Rent Stabilization Law (“RSL”) gov-
erns nearly one million apartments in New York City
and does far more than regulate rents. It strips own-
ers of their rights to use, possess, and exclude others
from their property—including by forcing owners to
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STATEMENT
A. New York’s Rent Stabilization Law
C. Procedural History
leases. Id. 7a; see also id. 79a. The court ultimately
concluded that Loretto, Horne v. Dep’t of Agric., 576
U.S. 350 (2015), and Cedar Point all are inapplicable
because none of them “concerns a statute that regu-
lates the landlord-tenant relationship.” App. 81a; see
id. 7a.
App. 7a; see also id. 78a-82a. The court held that be-
cause Petitioners “voluntarily invite[d] third parties
to use their properties,” Cedar Point is inapplicable.
Id. 6a. More broadly, the court found Loretto, Horne,
and Cedar Point inapposite because “[n]one of them
concerns a statute that regulates the landlord-tenant
relationship.” App. 81a. Instead, according to the
court, under Yee, governments have “broad power to
regulate housing conditions in general and the land-
lord-tenant relationship in particular without paying
compensation.” Id. 6a; see also id. 79a.
6 https://www.wsj.com/articles/rent-control-measures-are-back-
as-home-rents-reach-new-highs-11647180001.
7 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/
White-House-Blueprint-for-a-Renters-Bill-of-Rights-1.pdf.
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CONCLUSION
Respectfully submitted,