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INTERNAL PROTOTYPE — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — DO NOT SEND

Section 8

Citation
Section 8
Parent Document
Theodore Hayes v. Philip Harvey, 874 F.3d 98 (2017)
Effective Date
2017-10-18

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According to the majority, a family “may elect to
remain” in their home, but their landlord need not heed that
election: he can still evict them without cause. It concludes
that tenants’ rights are empty words unless a statute is also
expressly phrased in terms of a property owner’s obligation.
This renders tenants’ statutory entitlement to choose to remain
the most evanescent of rights: good only until the moment it is
required. This is not what Congress intended and it is not what
Congress enacted.