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Advocate’s View: Appellate courts reject commercial tenant attempts to avoid rent obligations

During the COVID outbreak in 2020, New York and several other states issued restrictions on in-person business operations in an attempt to reduce the spread of the virus. These measures significantly impacted commercial real estate as tenants struggled to pay rent to their landlords. While these restrictions first went into place nearly two and a half ...