Attorney General Moves to Dismiss Major Property Tax Suit

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently moved to dismiss a class action suit seeking to overturn existing city and state property tax laws, which the plaintiffs contend is racially discriminatory. The class action suit was filed in February and seeks to overturn a property tax system that’s widely acknowledged to benefit single-family homeowners in wealthy neighborhoods at the expense of homeowners in less wealthy ones. It also benefits homeowners as a class at the expense of renters, a disproportionate number of whom are black and Hispanic.