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GROWING CONCERN: Lynette Labinger, a cooperating attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island Inc., says she’s concerned about the way strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP suits, are increasingly emerging in housing disputes tied to tenant organizing. PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Tenant-landlord legal battle playing out amid a housing crisis

Focus 02/13/2026

A bitter dispute between a local landlord and a group of his former tenants over living conditions has entered a new chapter as the...

ACLU challenges landlord’s defamation lawsuit against tenants, organizers

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PROVIDENCE – The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island Inc. has filed a countersuit to a landlord's defamation lawsuit against tenants and others that...

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