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PHILLIPS v. EQUITY RESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.

SJC-12247.

478 Mass. 251 (2017)

SCOTT PHILLIPS v. EQUITY RESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 25, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua N. Garick ( David Pastor & Preston W. Leonard also present) for the plaintiff.

Craig M. White , of Illinois ( Thomas H. Wintner also present) for the defendant.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae: Jeffrey J. Pokorak , Catherine Dowie , & John Pierce Wilton for Accelerator-to-Practice Program of Suffolk University Law School & others. Lawrence J. Farber for Greater Boston Real Estate Board. Alex Mitchell-Munevar & Joseph Michalakes for City Life/Vida Urbana.

Present: Gants, C.J., Lenk, Hines, Gaziano, Lowy, Budd, & Cypher, JJ.

Where a landlord's itemized list of deductions from a tenant's security deposit does not comply with the requirements of the Security Deposit Act, G. L. c. 186, § 15B (act), the landlord forfeits the right to retain any part of that deposit. See G. L. c. 186, § 15B (6). In certain circumstances the landlord must pay the tenant...

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