Leardi v. Brown

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• finding that plaintiff residential tenants sustained an injury within meaning of Chapter 93A where, defendant landlord included provisions in their leases that violated state sanitary code, even though provisions were never attempted ,to be enforced
• interpreting “injury” under § 9 to include “an invasion of a legally protected interest, but no harm for which actual damages can be awarded”
• detailing the history of consumers' private remedies under Massachusetts' UTPA, Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. Ch. 93A, § 9
• noting tenants conceded landlord never attempted to enforce offending portions of lease
• \Technicalities are not to be read into the statute in such a way as to impede the accomplishments of substantial justice.\
• “Technicalities are not to be read into the statute in such a way as to impede the accomplishments of substantial justice.”

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