First Union Management, Inc. v. Slack

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• landlord should not enlarge “ordinary meaning” of rent in double rent statute by including utility charges denominated as “additional rent” in the lease
• test for determining whether trial court has subject matter jurisdiction over counterclaim in unlawful detainer action is whether “resolution of the [tenant’s] damage claim is . . . necessary to determine the right of possession”
• trial court in unlawful detainer action lacked subject matter jurisdiction to hear tenants’ counterclaim that landlord did not timely respond to their request to assign the property because landlord’s untimely response did not excuse the tenants’ breach
• claims not properly asserted if not related to possession
• jurisdiction can be challenged at any time
• upholding 5 nonwaiver clause in lease

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).