{"id":409,"date":"2018-07-10T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=409"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:40","slug":"landlords-failure-to-comply-with-security-deposit-regulations-may-be-defense-to-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2018\/07\/10\/landlords-failure-to-comply-with-security-deposit-regulations-may-be-defense-to-eviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlord&#8217;s failure to comply with security deposit regulations may be defense to eviction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Massachusetts court, in the case of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/masscases.com\/cases\/distapp\/2018\/2018massappdiv42.html\">Duff v. Pouliot,<\/a>2018 Mass. App. Div. 42, 2018 Mass. App. Div. LEXIS 10 (Mass. Dist. Ct. App. Div. 2018), has reaffirmed and applied a state supreme court precedent, <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/massachusetts\/supreme-court\/2016-sjc-11859.pdf?ts=1461767498\">Meikle v. Nurse,<\/a>49 N.E.3d 210 (Mass. 2016), holding that a landlord&#8217;s violation of the state security deposit statute may constitute a defense to a claim for possession and thus protect the tenant from eviction.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/consumer-protection\/\" rel=\"tag\">Consumer Protection<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/leaseholds\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leaseholds<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Massachusetts court, in the case of\u00a0Duff v. Pouliot,2018 Mass. App. Div. 42, 2018 Mass. App. Div. LEXIS 10 (Mass. Dist. Ct. App. Div. 2018), has reaffirmed and applied a state supreme court precedent, Meikle v. Nurse,49 N.E.3d 210 (Mass. 2016), holding that a landlord&#8217;s violation of the state security deposit statute may constitute a defense to a claim for possession and thus protect the tenant from eviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-protection","category-leaseholds"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}