Court Opinion

ID: 9671165
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:32:15.430121+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:08.449157
License: Public Domain

LANSING, Judge
(concurring specially).
Pioneer Snacks predicates its retaliatory eviction defense on the assertion of contract rights that were unrelated to its landlord-tenant relationship with Cloverdale Poods. I concur in the majority’s analysis that the retaliatory eviction defense contained in Minn.Stat. § 566.0S, subds. 2(1) and 2(2), applies to contract rights governing a landlord-tenant relationship, generally relating to types of violations associated with housing or building conditions. Because this holding is dispositive on the retaliatory eviction issue, I would not reach the alternative bases.