The City of Minneapolis was condemning our client’s home due to the landlord’s failure to make repairs. Our attorneys filed an Emergency Tenant Remedies Action to force the landlord to make the repairs. Upon further investigation, it became apparent that the repairs could not be completed before the condemnation date. We negotiated and came up with a settlement where the landlord dropped his claim for $1,000 of allegedly unpaid rent, allowed our client to stay rent free in the building while looking for a new apartment, and the landlord agreed to return our client’s security deposit despite the condition of the apartment upon moving out. Lawyers in our Minneapolis office successfully obtained expungement of the eviction actions against our client, dismissal with prejudice of all of the landlord’s claims for damages. Our client’s own substantive damage claims are still pending. The opposing party, our client’s former landlord, has engaged three separate attorneys, brought or challenged more than eight separate actions spanning seven judges in four separate courts, and has done so despite the fact that all of her own claims have been dismissed with prejudice, she has been reproached by the court and sanctioned with attorneys fees. Our Client, a single, working mother of six sought repairs for lack of heat, windows falling out of their panes, and repairmen not getting paid. Right before our client decided to file a rent escrow to have her heat repaired, the landlord filed an eviction action. The house was condemned for its lack of heat and our client was ordered by the City of Minneapolis to vacate the condemned premises. The housing court referee, upon hearing of the condemnation, issued an order setting a date for our client to vacate, and indicated that he would later grant expungement of the eviction action. Damages were not addressed. The landlord retaliated by withholding the security deposit and she filed in conciliation court for rent, theft and defamation. She also opposed our motion for equitable expungement and she sought judicial review to have the eviction action placed back on our client’s record, hiring a second attorney. She also sought a restraining order which we challenged and defeated. Through a third attorney, the landlord brought counterclaims raising the same allegations she’d earlier raised in conciliation court, claiming more than $60,000 in damages as well as improperly filing pictures of our client’s minor children as exhibits. We brought a motion to dismiss and strike, and the judge made a scathing dismissal order.