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Section 1437d

Citation
Section 1437d
Parent Document
Rucker v. Davis, 237 F.3d 1113 (2001)
Effective Date
2001-01-24
Original Source
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7086389/rucker-v-davis/ ↗

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The majority justifies its tortured reading of the statute on the grounds that enforcement of the plain language of § 1437d(i )(6) would lead to absurd results. Specifically, both the district court and the majority note that the statute contains neither temporal nor geographic limitations on the drug related criminal activity. Therefore, a tenant could be evicted if that tenant’s guest used drugs “five years earlier on the other side of the country.” The district court reasoned that the possibility of any absurd result (even one not presented by the actual controversy) rendered the statutory language ambiguous.