Goes v. Feldman

While the underlying dispute of the parties, which deals with the appropriate manner in which a landlord may tap a tenant’s security deposit, is relatively simple, this case presents threshold jurisdictional questions of some subtlety.

The plaintiffs brought their action under G. L. c. 93A and filed their complaint in the Housing Court 2 of the City of Boston. Although neither party raised a question of subject matter jurisdiction, the fact of a chapter 93A suit filed in a Housing Court sounds an alert in view of recent decisional and statutory developments concerning Housing Court…