Community Realty Management, Inc., for Wrights-Town Arms Apartments, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Nedra Harris…

Summary

The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the Appellate Division, vacating the judgment for possession and warrant of removal against tenant Nedra Harris, and held that the consent judgment was invalid because proper procedural safeguards were not followed and the tenant did not give a knowing, intelligent consent; the Court also barred the landlord from collecting unauthorized late charges and attorney fees as rent and ordered statewide procedural reforms for handling consent judgments in summary dispossess actions.