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Is a landlord allowed to shut off cable service in order to force eviction?

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My landlord has notified me he will be turning off the cable. Cable service was included in rent. I do not use the cable for tv but for internet and telephone. The telephone service is the only one I have. In this day and age many people are opting not to use a landline phone and this is what I did when I moved in. Are they any cases I can refer to?

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Frank Chen ·
Probably no cases to date. While it is the landlord's responsibility to install and maintain the inside wiring for one telephone jack, it is unclear whether the landlord's failure to do so is a breach of the implied warranty of habitability, especially when the telephone service is dependent upon the cable service. (California Civil Code section 1941.4; Public Utilities Code section 788; see also California Practice Guide, Landlord-Tenant, Paragraph 3:21.10 (The Rutter Group 2009). However, if cable service is included in the rent and if your written leases so states, and if your landlord is not reducing the rent, then you can argue this is the landlord's breach of the lease.
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Kenny Tan ·
The only law that protects tenants against shutting off of services generally has to do with services that would have direct impact on habitability like water and power. If your lease requires the the landlord to provide cable services, certainly you have a claim for breach of contract. You don't appear to have any other claims.
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