Highly doubtful.
The landlords destroyed $29K worth of their tenant's personal property without his knowledge or consent. Their aversion to the character of his belongings is a moot point. They had no right to do what they did.
The court is going to find for the tenant.
And at that point I hope his name is made public and the whole country knows what rotten loser this guy is.
Not that people have shame anymore.
Especially not in a BLUE state. Tenants have all the rights in BLUE STATES so he’ll probably win.
It is the germane point, if they can establish that his tenancy was predicated on his accepting their terms, including a prohibition on pornography. HE was the one in violation, since he had tacitly (or explicitly) agreed that the parents would not accept porn in their house.
The parents have a pretty strong case, depending on what they can prove about any prior agreements on the terms of his tenancy.
I'm no lawyer; but I play one on FR. Wouldn't the disposition of the case depend on whether or not there was a written lease, signed by both parties? If it was merely a verbal agreement, as I suspect it was, it would then seem that the father's stated warning about not bringing porn into the house would also be one of the terms of the "lease."