Silver v. Rudeen Mgmt. Co., Inc., 197 Wash. 2d 535 (2021)

Citation: Silver v. Rudeen Mgmt. Co., Inc., 197 Wash. 2d 535 (2021)
Parent Document: Silver v. Rudeen Mgmt. Co., Inc., 197 Wash. 2d 535 (2021)
Jurisdiction: Washington (state)
Effective Date: 2021-04-22
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10797891/silver-v-rudeen-mgmt-co-inc/ ↗

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          Although the Court of Appeals characterized Rudeen’s motion as one for summary
judgment, Silver, 10 Wn. App. 2d at 677-78, careful review of the record reveals that the posture
of this case is best understood as dismissal at the pleading stage. CR 12(c); Trujillo v. Nw. Tr.
Servs., Inc., 183 Wn.2d 820, 827 n.2, 355 P.3d 1100 (2015).
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          See also Werner Z. Hirsch, Landlord-Tenant Laws and Indigent Black Tenants, in 10
RESEARCH IN LAW & ECONOMICS: THE ECONOMICS OF URBAN PROPERTY RIGHTS 129, 130 (Austin
J. Jaffe guest ed., 1987) (“In fact, many landlord-tenant laws posed since the mid 60s came into
being, to no small extent, in response to the civil rights movement.”); Mary Ann Glendon, The
Transformation of American Landlord-Tenant Law, 23 B.C. L. REV. 503, 505 (1982) (“Underlying
these latter changes is the idea that shelter is a basic human necessity, and that public regulation
of the terms and conditions on which it is offered and held is therefore appropriate.”).
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