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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Ellis v. Doe, 924 N.W.2d 258 (2019)

Citation
Ellis v. Doe, 924 N.W.2d 258 (2019)
Parent Document
Ellis v. Doe, 924 N.W.2d 258 (2019)
Jurisdiction
Minnesota (state)
Effective Date
2019-03-06

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The tenant asserted the covenants of habitability as a defense to Ellis's eviction action. The initial question here is whether a tenant can raise a habitability defense in an eviction action without following the procedures of a rent-escrow action. We must therefore determine whether the statutory rent-escrow action is a codification of the habitability defense that we articulated in Fritz v. Warthen or a separate, complementary, remedy.