Judge rules to dissolve bid to halt evictions alternatively of vacating it arsenic Oasis Living Quarters wanted
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A civilian tribunal justice connected Monday sided with a grieving lawyer who raised consciousness astir susceptible seniors’ evictions during the Oasis Living Quarters conversion into Waterview Rental successful Fort Lauderdale.
Broward County Circuit Judge William W. Haury, Jr. ordered the evictions to halt connected April 2. The attorneys representing Oasis Living Quarters wanted him to vacate the order.
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“It’s to effort and marque it truthful that it ne'er happened, which is thing that we volition not allow,” Attorney David Comras said astatine the courthouse.
Comras claims determination were instrumentality violations during the evictions without written announcement and successful little than 45 days and erstwhile a “fabricated” Jan. 30 written announcement surfaced successful March.
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“Even present arsenic we beryllium present contiguous I person not met a azygous nonmigratory who has ever claimed to person received that document,” Comras said.
Comras’s aunt Rema Comras is the plaintiff successful the civilian suit filed connected March 19. She moved to Oasis Living Quarters aft her hubby died successful 2021.
The lawyer said his aunt was stressed aft a “mandatory” gathering to denote evictions impacting the assisted surviving installation residents descended into chaos connected March 5.
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Rema Comras moved retired of Oasis Living Quarters aft the announcement, and she died astatine 88 connected April 21.
During a proceeding connected Monday, Haury announced that since the plaintiff successful the civilian suit was dormant helium had decided to dissolve the order.
Haury did not vacate it. It was a triumph for David Comras, the Fort Lauderdale-based lawyer who has been grieving his aunt.
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