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What Happened: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A gym that had to shut down temporarily under the governor’s COVID-19 emergency orders stopped paying rent in March. The landlord couldn’t evict because of the state-wide moratorium on commercial evictions. But it could still sue the tenant for damages. And that’s what it did. The tenant claimed frustration of purpose and impossibility and asked the court to dismiss the case.
