Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordinance ending rent control in Somerville went into effect Thursday, although four Somerville residents are awaiting action in Middlesex Superior Court on a suit to retain rent control...
...suit also claims apartments of all four plaintiffs violate the state sanitary code, even though their landlords are demanding large rent increases...
Thomas F. August, mayor of Somerville, said yesterday that contrary to the allegations of the suit, the city had hired all 12 sanitary code enforcers by Thursday. Hearings on the suit reopen March...
Norman E. Campbell, one of the plaintiffs in the suit, said yesterday he has lived in the same apartment for 17 years with only minor price increases, but that his landlord was raising his rent from $184 to $284 per month on March 1. "I'd rather go out and buy a house with that kind of money," Campbell said...
...termed the story "inaccurate." "Dean Fouraker never asked me to contact the Dow Jones outside lawyers," he said, adding, "I knew the lawyers personally and thought of speaking to them strictly in that sense, but I never did actually contact them. And certainly no legal action like a law suit was ever considered...