# Twentieth Century Associates, Inc. v. Waldman

> New York Court of Appeals · July 19, 1945 · 294 N.Y. 571

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3628294

## Case

- **Full name:** Twentieth Century Associates, Inc., Appellant, v. Adolph Waldman, Doing Business Under the Name of the Ardmore Manufacturing Company, Respondent
- **Court:** New York Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** July 19, 1945
- **Citations:** 294 N.Y. 571; 63 N.E.2d 177; 162 A.L.R. 197; 1945 N.Y. LEXIS 785
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Dye
- **Judges:** Thacher, Dye
- **Cited by:** 61 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- rejecting due process and equal protection challenges to commercial rent stabilization law during World War II

## Opinion text

Dye, J.
(dissenting). I disagree with the opinion of Thacheb, J. The judgment upholding the constitutionality of the Commercial Rent Law should be reversed.
The retroactive provisions of section 7, chapter 3, of the Laws of 1945, being an unreasonable exercise of the police power, violate article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution.
The domestic rent laws of 1920 were construed as prospective.
(Orinoco Realty Co.
v.
Bandler,
233 N. Y. 24 .)
This statute attempts to impair the obligation of contract, legal at inception.
I accordingly vote to reverse the judgment. ,
Lehman, Ch. J., Loughran, Lewis, Conway and Desmond, JJ., concur with Thacher, J.; Dye, J., dissents in separate memorandum.
Judgment affirmed.

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