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Section 504B

Citation
Section 504B
Parent Document
Cent. Hous. Assocs., LP v. Olson, 929 N.W.2d 398 (2019)
Jurisdiction
Minnesota (state)
Effective Date
2019-06-12
Original Source
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/8288834/cent-hous-assocs-lp-v-olson/ ↗

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The common-law defense that we recognize today should not prevent law-abiding landlords from evicting tenants for material breaches of leases. Like most Minnesotans, most landlords care about obeying the law, and we suspect that most of them already assume that tenants may not be evicted for making complaints in good faith. Reasonable landlords seek the help of the judiciary to evict tenants only as a last resort. But, when an eviction action is in retaliation for a good-faith complaint that the landlord has materially violated the law or lease, the landlord should not expect the judiciary to assist.