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Tenant Remedies For A Denial Of Essential Services And For Harassment -The New York Approach Jan 1972

Tenant Remedies For A Denial Of Essential Services And For Harassment -The New York Approach

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The New York Legislature has enacted a series of statutory remedies intended to afford tenants protection when a landlord fails to provide adequate services. The Legislature has been faced, however, with the problem of finding a proper balance between the property rights of the landlord and the human rights of the tenant. As a result, each of these remedies has severe shortcomings which render its operation difficult and at times virtually impossible.


Comment: The Constitutionality Of Local Anti-Pollution Ordinances Jan 1972

Comment: The Constitutionality Of Local Anti-Pollution Ordinances

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Local governments have recently expanded their efforts to abate pollution problems. The constitutionality of such local ordinances under both federal and state law, however, has not yet been adequately determined. In order to clarify the constitutional limits of local environmental laws, it is necessary to examine the relevant questions raised by both the United States Constitution and the various state constitutions. Part I of this comment will deal with the federal-local conflicts and Part II will discuss the state-local conflicts. In each of the two sections, relevant legislation in the environmental field will be discussed. Finally, a model statute will …


Jamaica Bay: An Urban Marshland In Transition, Louis J. Lefkowitz Jan 1972

Jamaica Bay: An Urban Marshland In Transition, Louis J. Lefkowitz

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article will briefly examine the environmental problems that affect the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people who live adjacent to Jamaica Bay, and the extraordinary opportunities for recreation and enjoyment for which the Bay, freed of sewage, air pollution and aircraft noise, could be employed.


Taming The Technological Tygerthe Regulation Of The Environmental Effects Of Nuclear Power Plants -A Survey Of Some Controversial Issues--Part One, Joyce P. Davis Jan 1972

Taming The Technological Tygerthe Regulation Of The Environmental Effects Of Nuclear Power Plants -A Survey Of Some Controversial Issues--Part One, Joyce P. Davis

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article reviews the significance placed on environmental factors in nuclear plant licensing during -the 1960s, first considering the effect of recent legislation and the status of current controversies, and then briefly discussing proposals for legislation and developments that can be expected in the near future.


Comment: An Analysis Of The Fair Credit Reporting Act Jan 1972

Comment: An Analysis Of The Fair Credit Reporting Act

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This comment will examine the Fair Credit Reporting Act and discuss the significance of the more important provisions.


Book Review: Water Wasteland, Angus Macbeth Jan 1972

Book Review: Water Wasteland, Angus Macbeth

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Water Wasteland, reviews federal water pollution control programs of the last fifteen years and provides a useful insight into the decline and fall of American rivers.


Case Notes Jan 1972

Case Notes

Fordham Urban Law Journal

A look at the decisions in Langevin v. Chenango Court, Inc., 447 F.2d 296 (2d Cir. 1971); Vasquez v. Superior Court of San Joaquin County. 4 Cal. 3d 800, 484 P.2d 964, 94 Cal. Rptr. 796 (1971); and Dickens v. Ernesto, 30 N.Y.2d 61, 281 N.E.2d 153, 330 N.Y.S.2d 346, appeal dismissed, 40 U.S.L.W. 3596 (1972).


Residential Densities: A Patchwork Placebo, Stephen Sussna Jan 1972

Residential Densities: A Patchwork Placebo, Stephen Sussna

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article examines the importance of residential density planning in today's society and the misapplications of this concept which have led to serious inequities in the population distribution of major American urban areas. The article will also discuss one of the great obstacles to the achievement of a rational population distribution, namely, exclusionary zoning ordinances. Finally, it will evaluate the future of density planning, specifically examining "ideal densities" and "efficient design for new communities" as well as the judicial implications of the problem. Several recommendations will also be made which, if implemented, would alleviate some of the difficulties that permeate …


Taming The Technological Tygerthe Regulation Of The Environmental Effects Of Nuclear Power Plants -A Survey Of Some Controversial Issues--Part Two, Joyce P. Davis Jan 1972

Taming The Technological Tygerthe Regulation Of The Environmental Effects Of Nuclear Power Plants -A Survey Of Some Controversial Issues--Part Two, Joyce P. Davis

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article reviews the significance placed on environmental factors in nuclear plant licensing during -the 1960s, first considering the effect of recent legislation and the status of current controversies, and then briefly discussing proposals for legislation and developments that can be expected in the near future.


Comment: Consumerism’S Forgotten Man Jan 1972

Comment: Consumerism’S Forgotten Man

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This comment will analyze the Home Solicitation Sales Act in terms of the special needs of the low income consumer and will suggest an additional statutory approach to protect consumers of lower economic strata.


Books Reviewed, Stephen M. David, John P. Curley, Mark H. Tuohey Jan 1972

Books Reviewed, Stephen M. David, John P. Curley, Mark H. Tuohey

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Reviews of Why Men Rebel, The Mugging and The police and the Public


Case Notes Jan 1972

Case Notes

Fordham Urban Law Journal

A look at the recent decisions in Chance v. Board of Examiners, 458 F.2d 1167 (2d Cir. 1972); Bullock v. Carter, 405 U.S. 134 (1972); Dunn v. Blumstein, 405 U.S. 330 (1972); Lamb v. Brown, 456 F.2d 18 (10th Cir. 1972); Perez v. United States, 402 U.S. 146 (1971); Oliver v. Postel, 30 N.Y.2d 171, 282 N.E.2d 306, 331 N.Y.S.2d 407 (1972); and Jefferson v. Hackney, 406 U.S. 535 (1972).