A federal appellate court has ended one of many battles in a widespread landlord-tenant war by upholding the ex-tenant’s right to use and blog about an unflattering photo of the ex-landlord, a minority owner of the Miami Heat.
The ruling Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upholds a trial court decision for Irina Chevaldina, a former tenant of the California Club Mall in Miami. Ex-landlord Raanan Katz, a billionaire commercial real estate developer, owns the mall and about two dozen others through his company RK Associates.
