DUSSAULT v. RRE COACH LANTERN HOLDINGS, LLC

Docket No. Cum-11-591.

86 A.3d 52 (2014)

2014 ME 8

Nicole DUSSAULT v. RRE COACH LANTERN HOLDINGS, LLC, et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: January 23, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia M. Ender, Esq. (orally), and Katherine McGovern, Esq. , Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc., Augusta and Portland, for appellant Nicole Dussault.

Margaret Coughlin LePage, Esq. , and Katharine I. Rand, Esq. (orally), Pierce Atwood, LLP, Portland, for appellees RRE Coach Lantern Holdings, LLC, and Resource Real Estate Management, Inc.

John P. Gause, Esq. , Maine Human Rights Commission, Augusta, for amicus curiae Maine Human Rights Commission.

Justin W. Andrus, Esq. , and Neil S. Shankman, Esq. , Shankman & Associates, Topsham, for amicus curiae Maine Apartment Owners and Managers Association.

Mark C. Joyce, Esq. , Disability Rights Center of Maine, Augusta, for amicus curiae Disability Rights Center of Maine.

John J. McDermott, Esq. , National Apartment Association, Arlington, Virginia, and David J. Van Baars, Esq. , Windham, for amici curiae National Apartment Association and Maine Apartment Association.

J. Danian Ortiz, Esq. , Patrick Bushell , Law Student, and Ian Friel , Law Student, The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Center & Clinic, Chicago, Illinois, and David A. Lourie, Esq. , Portland, for amicus curiae The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Center & Clinic.

Robert Edmond Mittel, Esq. , MittelAsen LLC, and Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, Esq. , James P. Dowden, Esq. , and Thomas R. Sutcliffe, Esq. , Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, for amici curiae National Center for Medical Legal Partnership and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.

Dissent: LEVY, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.


SILVER, J.

[¶ 1] Nicole Dussault appeals from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Cole, J.) in favor of RRE Coach Lantern Holdings, LLC, and Resource Real Estate Management, Inc. (collectively, Coach Lantern). Dussault claims that Coach Lantern's policy of not including in its standard lease a tenancy addendum that binds the landlord to the requirements of the federal government's Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program...

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