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Ferreira v. Charland (2023)

Ferreira v. Charland (2023) Massachusetts state

Summary Process, Appeal, Notice to quit. Landlord and Tenant, Termination of tenancy, State sanitary code, Eviction. Practice, Civil, Summary process, Counterclaim and cross- claim. Statute, Construction.

Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)

Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011) Massachusetts state

...The word “eviction,” as used in the statute, is therefore not limited to the service of a notice to quit or initiation of a summary process action: it includes any act that results in the actual or constructive eviction of...

Jablonski v. Casey, 64 Mass. App. Ct. 744 (2005)

Jablonski v. Casey, 64 Mass. App. Ct. 744 (2005) Massachusetts state

...186, § 18 (notice by landlord of termination of tenancy within six months after tenant complains of conditians in apartment creates “rebuttable presumption that such notice ... is a reprisal against the tenant”). Furthermore, when, as here, the eviction is based on...

Lindquist v. Stella, 111 N.E.3d 304 (2018)

Lindquist v. Stella, 111 N.E.3d 304 (2018) Massachusetts state

...The retaliation, the judge found, took three forms: (1) raising Stella's rent, (2) serving an eviction notice, and (3) "arguabl[y] chang[ing] the terms of the tenancy with respect to the available parking." The second of these findings...

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Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Sutton (2023) Massachusetts state

filed a timely notice of appeal from the judgment. On April 20, 2020, the Legislature passed an emergency act creating an eviction moratorium in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Scott Realty Group Trust v. Charland (2020) Massachusetts state

"a notice to vacate, or a complaint or other initial pleading used to begin an eviction action under State or local law." Thus, to prevail, Charland needed to show that neither the

Adjartey v. Cent. Div. of the Hous. Court Departmentand, 120 N.E.3d 297 (2019)

Adjartey v. Cent. Div. of the Hous. Court Departmentand, 120 N.E.3d 297 (2019) Massachusetts state

Because the document's title -- "notice to quit" -- does nothing to clarify its meaning, a tenant may reasonably misunderstand the legal force of a notice to quit. A standard notice to quit states that a tenant may be evicted if...

Ferreira v. Charland (2023)

Ferreira v. Charland (2023) Massachusetts state

evictions, she could not serve the tenants with a notice to quit at that time. See St. 2020, c. 65, § 3.7 On December 14, 2020, the landlord filed a no-fault summary

JEFFREY CAMPBELL v. MANSOUR ABDULLA & Others. (2025)

JEFFREY CAMPBELL v. MANSOUR ABDULLA & Others. (2025) Massachusetts state

Keywords: Summary Process, Appeal, Notice to quit. Practice, Civil, Summary process. Housing Court. Municipal Corporations, Board of health. Landlord and Tenant, Eviction, Reprisal against tenant. Statute, Construction.

Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)

Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011) Massachusetts state

In addition, “[a] foreclosing owner shall not evict a tenant for actions that constitute just cause unless the foreclosing owner has delivered to each tenant at the time of delivery of written notice pursuant to this section, a written disclosure...

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Sutton (2023)

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Sutton (2023) Massachusetts state

COVID-19 pandemic eviction moratorium, the Housing Court clerk's office refused to docket the homeowner's timely notice of appeal. We conclude that the clerk's office should have

Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)

Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011) Massachusetts state

A foreclosing owner that has just cause to evict but has not alleged just cause in the notice to quit and the summary process action needs to recommence the summary process procedure and issue a new notice to quit asserting...

Adjartey v. Cent. Div. of the Hous. Court Departmentand, 120 N.E.3d 297 (2019)

Adjartey v. Cent. Div. of the Hous. Court Departmentand, 120 N.E.3d 297 (2019) Massachusetts state

...A sheriff could then serve the tenant with forty-eight hours' notice of eviction and, if the tenant remains on the premises, physically evict the tenant two days later, on Friday, December 28. Based on this timeline, approximately nine weeks...

Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)

Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011) Massachusetts state

...A foreclosing owner *515“shall not evict a tenant” for just cause until the notice required by G. L. c. 186A, § 3, is posted and delivered, or until thirty days after the posting and delivery of the notice, depending on...

Bank of New York v. Bailey, 460 Mass. 327 (2011)

Bank of New York v. Bailey, 460 Mass. 327 (2011) Massachusetts state

Bailey asserts that on March 26, 2007, he discovered that a notice to evict had been affixed by duct tape to the fence surrounding his West Selden Street property. 5

Lindquist v. Stella, 111 N.E.3d 304 (2018)

Lindquist v. Stella, 111 N.E.3d 304 (2018) Massachusetts state

We disagree with Lindquist's argument that Stella's "extreme hostility" was an independent justification. The evidence does not show, much less clearly and convincingly, that this was what motivated Lindquist to serve the eviction notice.