Latonya Marzett v. Amanda Letendre, alias (2021)

Citation: Latonya Marzett v. Amanda Letendre, alias (2021)
Parent Document: Latonya Marzett v. Amanda Letendre, alias (2021)
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island (state)
Effective Date: 2021-03-10
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4862702/latonya-marzett-v-amanda-letend... ↗

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       We are not swayed by Ms. Marzett’s argument in favor of the Superior
Court’s exercise of subject matter jurisdiction which focuses on the fact that the
defendants were former tenants due to the fact that they had vacated the premises
prior to the filing of the complaint in this case. We would note that the plain
language of the Act makes no distinction between current and former tenants, and
it is certainly not our role to do what the Legislature has chosen not to do. See
Moretti v. Division of Intoxicating Beverages, 62 R.I. 281, 286, 5 A.2d 288, 290
(1939) (“It is our duty to construe the statute, not to redraft it.”); see also Rhode
Island Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Burke, 101 R.I. 644, 647, 226 A.2d 420, 422 (1967)
(stating that this Court “will go no farther than the [L]egislature has gone”)
(internal quotation marks omitted).

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