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“Eunice,” who is 76 and deaf, had been living in the same apartment for more than a decade without any problem, paying her rent on time and keeping to herself. Her only visitors are her children and grandchildren, who stop by to check on her. One day, Eunice received a notice from her landlord claiming that her grandson was living with her as an unauthorized occupant of the apartment. Unless she removed her grandson from her apartment, the landlord said, she would be evicted. Apparently, Eunice’s grandson had gotten into trouble, and the landlord assumed he was living with her because he had been to the apartment. Although the grandson did not in fact live there, her landlord sued to evict her anyway. JALA attorney James Tyer stepped in and immediately contacted her landlord’s attorney, contesting the eviction. Before JALA was even able to file a response in court, the landlord’s attorney agreed to dismiss the case with the stipulation that Eunice not to allow her grandson to come by anymore. She agreed, and the case was dismissed.
