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Tenant seeks reversal or remand after housing court denied accommodation tied to MS flare-up
Summary
In Lehi Grove LLC v. Elaine Laffin, tenant counsel argued a 2023 acute multiple-sclerosis episode caused emotional and cognitive impairment that made a 2021 third-party communication agreement unreasonable; landlord counsel defended the housing court’s Bridgewater-based denial and pointed to administrative burden and subsidy risk from repeated emails and late recertification.
The final argument of the March 2 sitting, Lehi Grove LLC v. Elaine Laffin, turned on whether a housing court correctly denied a reasonable-accommodation defense to an eviction/possession motion and whether the 2021 mediated agreement (requiring a third-party intermediary for communications) foreclosed the tenant’s 2023 accommodation request.
Alex Van Dyke, representing Ms. Laffin, said that an acute 2023 exacerbation of multiple sclerosis produced emotional and cognitive effects that made it difficult…
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