If you are a tenant in Nassau County and your landlord refuses to refund your security deposit, you can sue them in Nassau County Small Claims Court to get it back.

In Hasan v Executive Towers at Lido, LLC, 29 Misc.3d 131(A), a tenant sued her landlord in Nassau County Small Claims Court for return of her security deposit. When she moved out of her apartment in the Executive Towers at Lido, LLC, her landlord refused to refund her security deposit. So, she initiated a Nassau County Small Claims Court action to have her deposit refunded to her. On the court date, the landlord failed to appear in court, and the tenant won a default judgment for the full amount of her security deposit.

Upon receiving the decision in the mail, the landlord filed a motion to vacate a default judgment, asking the Nassau County Small Claims Court judge to overturn the default judgment and restore the case to the court's calendar for trial. The Nassau County Small Claims Court judge denied the...