Wrongful Eviction: What's A Tenant To Do?
If you are a tenant and thought that you’ve been a great renter, but are being evicted, you may be experiencing a wrongful eviction. In any eviction proceeding, you should get notice that the landlord is terminating your tenancy and they should provide adequate time to leave the premises and/or remedy the problem within a given timeframe after you have received the notice. If you don’t move or fix the issue, they can start an eviction proceeding, which usually entails filing a lawsuit, and is sometimes called an Unlawful Detainer (UD). Landlords are required to know and follow the local and state procedures during the eviction of a tenant. If they don’t, the tenant may have legal recourse he/she can undertake. Wrongful Eviction
Additionally, the lawyer can help you to determine if the case is one where you should fight the eviction or simply move. If you lose an eviction lawsuit, the costs can be enormous, plus it can damage your credit rating and your ability to rent in the future. Wrongful Eviction Court cases Damages can be awarded should a court decide that indeed you were unlawfully evicted. A jury awarded $860,000 to victims in Hamilton County, Tennessee, when they found that the landlord improperly evicted the tenants and destroyed their belongings. In Queens, New York, a landlord was ordered to pay $500,000 to a single dad whom she evicted and then threw his belongings out into the rain. In Oakland, California, tenants in public housing reached a settlement with the Housing Authority in a wrongful eviction case that provides for the 19 tenants to keep their rental units and for the Housing Authority to pay the legal fees associated with the case. In Orlando, Florida, a convenience store owner will be re-opening his shop complete with new appliances, a walk-in cooler, and $30,000 worth of supplies now that the landlord dropped his lawsuit due to the police stating the grounds he used for eviction were not valid. Possible Defenses to Wrongful Eviction
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| The original statue of Liberty gifted by the French to America was not the stern-faced green Roman looking woman that you see today holding a tablet and a torch. The original and first Statue of Liberty was a Black woman holding the broken shackles of slavery. She was refused on the notion that the black statue would be a constant reminder of the liberty that the slaves earned, from successfully fighting in the American Civil War. The true Black Statue of Liberty remains rejected, forgotten and lost in broken fragments of Black history. Abolition Movement, Organized attempt to outlaw institutionalized slavery that relied on means ranging from philosophical debate to outright and illegal violence. The movement's greatest influence was in the United States, England, and the West Indies. Institutionalized slavery had declined in Europe during the Middle Ages, when serfs began taking the place of slaves as feudalism spread. With the colonization of the New World, however, came a sudden demand for labor that led to the capture of some nine million West Africans by 1800 and exportation of them as slaves to British colonies in America and the West Indies. Quaker sects in both England and New England were the first to protest this slave trade in 1671. Only after the French Revolution, however did the worldwide political climate become receptive to the idea of abolition. England's Abolition Society, founded in 1787, was enabled by this general change in attitudes to end the British slave trade in 1807. In 1831 William Lloyd Garrison began publication of the Liberator, which helped draw many famous names to the cause, including the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, clergyman Theodore Weld, and free blacck Americans such as Frederick Douglass. In 1833 Garrison founded the American AntiSlavery Society in Philadelphia. |
