The Bloomberg administration is suing the City Council for a law the legislators say will curtail predatory lending, and the mayor argues will discourage banks from doing business in the five boroughs.
The city on Friday asked a panel of state appellate court judges to let the Department of Homeless Services penalize single adults who do not follow certain shelter system rules — and promised to have a system in place to ensure that clients who are too ill to follow those rules are not penalized.
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