Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
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- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
- Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf
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1,765 charspandemic. Therefore, by placing Section 4024 within Title IV, Congress plainly intended that section to be interpreted in a manner that would lead to greater economic stabilization in the relevant economic sector. The economic sector to be stabilized by Section 4024 was rental housing and the potential for the economic disruption of the pandemic to interfere with a tenant’s ability to make 12 For the current opinion, go to https://www.lexisnexis.com/clients/wareports/. No. 85031-8-I/13 rental payments. This reinforces the interpretation that, in enacting Section 4024, Congress was concerned only with the instability created in the rental housing sector by a tenant’s nonpayment of rent due to the pandemic. 3 The Amicus suggests a much broader interpretation of Section 4024, offering that, because Congress did not specify an eviction basis in the notice to vacate protections set forth in subsection (c), Congress purportedly intended that those protections be interpreted as applying to any and all notices to vacate in covered dwellings. The argument for this broad interpretation, however, is unpersuasive. As set forth above, “we ‘construe a statute so that all the language used is given effect, with no portion rendered meaningless or superfluous.’” Linville, 11 Wn. App. 2d at 321 (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Swanson, 193 Wn. App. at 810). Indeed, “‘[c]ommon sense informs our analysis, as we avoid absurd results in statutory interpretation.’” Linville, 11 Wn. App. 2d at 321 (quoting Alvarado, 164 Wn.2d at 562). “We avoid an interpretation that results in unlikely or strained consequences.” Swanson, 193 Wn. App. at 811 (citing Broughton Lumber Co. v. BNSF Ry., 174 Wn.2d 619, 635, 278 P.3d 173 (2012)).