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Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)

Citation
Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)
Parent Document
Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
2011-09-06
Original Source
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6580334/federal-national-mortgage-assn-v-nunez/ ↗

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Fannie Mae’s first claim of retroactivity is premised on the argument that the statutory definition of “eviction” is limited to a legal action to cause a tenant to vacate a property. Asserting that the legal action that the statute prohibits was the one initiated *518when the summary process complaint was filed, Fannie Mae claims that the only way the Housing Court could have applied the act to this case was by retroactively prohibiting a legal action that had already commenced.8