{"id":197421,"date":"2026-04-14T22:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197421\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:07:08","slug":"nyc-tax-tribunals-20-year-delay-doesnt-violate-due-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197421\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Tax Tribunal\u2019s 20-Year Delay Doesn\u2019t Violate Due Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Life insurance agent failed to convince the New York City Tax Appeals Tribunal that it should rule in his favor because its 20-year delay for lack of a quorum denied him due process.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal\u2019s 2007 order staying the case until at least two of its three commissioners could hear it expressly gave Samuel Friedman the option of bringing a mandamus action in state trial court but he never did, the tribunal <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutbtax.com\/blrl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Even though the case has now racked up $3 million in interest, Friedman hasn\u2019t established that the delay caused irreparable harm because he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York Life insurance agent failed to convince the New York City Tax Appeals Tribunal that it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8867,78690,78692,78691,78693,5593,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-197421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-due-process","9":"tag-independent-contractors","10":"tag-insurance-agents","11":"tag-insurance-brokers","12":"tag-life-insurance","13":"tag-municipal-tax","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}