Darmetko v. Boston Housing Authority

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that the statutory minimum damages of three months' rent provide \an incentive to the pursuit of relief where the actual and consequential damages are slight or are difficult to prove\
• recognizing that the statutory minimum damages of three months’ rent provide “an incentive to the pursuit of relief where the actual and consequential damages are slight or are difficult to prove”
• mandatory fees under G. L. c. 186, § 14, payable to publicly funded legal services organization representing prevailing tenant at no cost
• attorney's fees awarded even though law students represented the plaintiff for free and could not receive remuneration
• \A contempt order issued during the course of a proceeding has been held not to be a final order appealable by a party\
• ‘“Section 14 allows a minimum recovery of three months’ rent as an incentive to the pursuit of relief where the actual and consequential damages are slight or are difficult to prove”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).