Dolores v. Gustafson

Summary judgment was entered for the defendants on the plaintiffs’ claims that they were entitled under G.L.c. 185, §15B(7) to recover three times the amount of their security deposit, plus costs and reasonable attorney’s fees, for the defendants' violations of the Massachusetts security deposit law.3 We must decide on *268this interlocutory appeal4 whether, in light of the Appeals Court’s October 15, 2009 decision in Taylor v. Beaudry, 75 Mass. App. Ct. 411 (2009), the motion judge properly applied Castenholz v. Calm, 21 Mass. App. Ct. 758 (1986) in allowing summary judgment for the defendants.

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