Well-known real estate lawyer Adam Leitman Bailey on Tuesday claimed another victory in a headline-grabbing landlord-”holdover” tenant fight that has involved multiple $25 million lawsuits, as well as cross-claims and cross-appeals, brought in state court.

In a terse opinion, the Appellate Division, First Department court ruled that based on the state’s anti-SLAPP statute, Bailey is due attorney fees and costs in the wake of him being sued personally by a real-estate developer that claimed he’d waged a “malicious media campaign” aimed at “shaking down” the developer, which has been in litigation with Bailey’s client.

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