A Texas landlord-tenant dispute over a $1,950 security deposit ended with a partial refund for the tenant, but not the legal costs he had hoped to recover. Blake Vaughn challenged deductions made by landlord Albert Li after his mother and two brothers moved out of a rented property in Tarrant County. The disagreement involved repair bills, changed locks and allegations of an unlawful lockout. A trial court ordered Li to return $880.32 but found insufficient evidence of bad faith and awarded court costs to the landlord. As reported in Texas Second Court of Appeals by Justia US Law, in June 2026, the Second Court of Appeals upheld that judgment.
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