A common scenario in landlord-tenant law is where a residential landlord believes the tenant is in violation of the lease, or is causing a nusiance, and wants to get the tenant out as soon as possible. Perhaps the tenant has additional people living with them, or is having loud parties that annoy the neighbors and lead to complaints--or perhaps the tenant is doing something more obviously illegal, such as dealing drugs out of his apartment. What options do the landlord and te

“Fraud” is a word that most of us know, and it’s one of the claims that comes up most frequently in civil litigation – especially litigation between ordinary people (as opposed to one multi-million-dollar company suing another). But what does fraud really mean in the civil litigation context? At the outset, we’ll note that there are different kinds of fraud. These all fall broadly within the heading of “torts,” or civil wrongs. (There is also such a thing as criminal fraud, b