NORRIDGEWOCK (AP) — A Norridgewock landlord is dropping efforts to evict a tenant he said violated her lease by allowing her disabled daughter to stay in the home for five days with a service dog.
Dawn Zammuto faced eviction from her mobile home because her landlords, Oakley and Donna Brann, said she broke the no-pets clause in the lease.
Maine state law prohibits discrimination in accommodations against someone with a service animal.
The Branns’ lawyer, John Martin, tells the Morning Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1pljFDV ) he was filing papers to drop the eviction case.
Martin said the legal issue in the case came down to whether courts would consider someone “associated with” the tenant having the same right to use a service animal as the person renting the property.
Zammuto’s daughter has conversion disorder.
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