These recent verdicts for commercial and residential landlord/tenant disputes cover a no-pets policy which violated Fair Housing laws, a landlord who destroyed an auto shop owner’s equipment, sexual harassment and assault, false claims of child abuse and a landlord who delayed development of a golf course.
| $3,162,900 | Tenant’s 6-year-old daughter was sodomized by landlord’s teen son. Tenant claimed that the landlord knew his son had engaged in other inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature. (Middlesex Co., N.J.; Superior Court) |
| $985,000 | Developer of golf course claimed that city landlord dumped dredged materials onto its property, delaying the project. (Martin Co., Fla.; Circuit Court) |
| $500,000 | Landlord evicted tenant and filed a false claim of child abuse to combat his children’s allegedly noisy behavior. Landlord claimed that the tenant and his children kids broke the rules. (Queens Co., N.Y.; Supreme Court) |
| $272,000 | Landlord impermissibly entered the tenant’s apartmentsand made threats and sexual advances.(Brazos County, Texas; District Court) |
| $120,000 | Auto-repair shop’s owner sued landlord who trashed functionalitems during the cleanup of a firethat damaged the shop. The landlord claimed that the tenant was notified that items would be removed. (Atlantic Co., N.J.; Superior Court) |
| $102,000 | Landlord would not allow the tenant’s daughter to keep herassistance dog. She needed the dog to help with her cerebral palsy, depression and seizure disorder. The landlord refused to make any exception to his no-pets policy and to renew her lease. He began eviction proceedings when sheexercised her rights under the Fair Housing Act. (ConnecticutU.S. District Court) |
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