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A U.S. appeals court recently ruled that an elderly Manhattan woman's rent-stabilized lease could not be seized and sold to satisfy her creditors after she filed for bankruptcy. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the rent-stabilized tenant’s lease, which she has had for more than four decades, qualified as a "local public assistance benefit" that state law places off-limits to bankruptcy creditors.
