US District Court Affirms Fourth Amendment against New York City Ordinance that Would Have Required Airbnb and Home Away to Disclose Large Amounts of Personal DataUS Fourth AmendmentprivacyNYCAirbnbsmart citiesThe Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the 'right of the people...
In February, the City Council approved an ordinance imposing steep escalating fines on both homeowners and renters who have large parties that disturb neighbors. Violators can face fines of up to $8,000. The City Council also gave preliminary approval to a new ordinance in May that limits t...
Airbnb sued the city of New York on Friday, denouncing as "an extraordinary act of government overreach" a new law forcing home-sharing platforms to disclose data about hosts. It was a dramatic escalation in the battle between the $30 billion company and authorities in America's most populous...
, as local government officials around the nation grapple with how best to handle the increasing popularity of short-term rental platforms like airbnb, homeaway, and vrbo in high-tourism areas. in june 2019, the jersey city council introduced a new ordinance aimed at remedying these issues. ...
The company in 2018 sued the city of New York, claiming the ordinance was unconstitutional and "an extraordinary act of government overreach," winning a court order that blocked the law. New York in 2016 tightened rules applying to home-sharing services, slapping steep fines on those who let ...
Airbnb has bigger concerns than one more big city, Chicago, is potentially tightening its short-term rental restrictions. But this certainly wouldn't help.
In the Santa Monica case Airbnb and HomeAway.com argued that the city’s ordinance required them to monitor and remove third-party content and in doing so violated the Communications Decency Act, interfering with protections afforded to them under the federal law. ...
Long Term Solutions to the Short-Term Problem: An Analysis of the Current Legal Issues Related to Airbnb and Similar Short-Term Rental Companies with a Proposed Model Ordinance Airbnb and the short-term rental market have revolutionized the way that we travel and book accommodations, and now th...
HomeAway alleges that Airbnb lobbyists met with board supervisor Chiu more than 30 times in the year leading up to the introduction of the short-term rental law in April 2014, and another four times in September 2014, a month before the ordinance was adopted in a 7-4 vote. ...
The company also has problems in New York. Under a new ordinance, rentals shorter than 30 days are allowed only if hosts register with the city, commit to being physically present in the home for the duration of the rental and share living quar...