Pendergrass v. Fagan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, “even if a tenant vacates the premises and resolves the issue of‘physical possession’ of the premises, a tenant’s defenses to an eviction action are not moot if the issue of‘right to possession’ remains for the court to decide”
• “[W]hen the legislature prohibits a list of different acts, the meaning of each term in the list is determined in light of the common characteristics of other terms in the same list.”
• “[W]hen the legislature prohibits a list of different acts, the meaning of each term in the list is determined in light of the common characteristics of other terms in the same list.”
• “[Ejven if a tenant vacates the premises and resolves the issue of ‘physical possession’ of the premises, a tenant’s defenses to an eviction action are not moot if the issue of‘right to possession’ remains for the court to decide.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).