BEILFUSS, J.
The issue is whether a tenant, in an unlawful detainer action, can assert as a valid defense an allegation that the landlord's attempt to terminate the tenancy and evict the tenant was motivated as retaliation for the tenant's complaint to the health authorities of a housing code sanitary violation.
The defendant contends that he has a federally guaranteed constitutional right to make such complaints and that for a state to permit such retaliation...
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