Legal Opinion
Leardi v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 28, 1985PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the Housing Court of the City of Boston, and involves the interpretation of a recent amendment to G. L. c. 93A, the Consumer Protection Act. Specifically, we are asked to determine whether, within the meaning of that statute, the tenants comprising the plaintiff class have been “injured” by the use of deceptive and illegal clauses in the defendants’ standard apartment lease, despite the fact that the plaintiffs were unaware of, and the defendants have never attempted to enforce, these illegal provisions. We conclude that, in the particular…
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