Commercial Tenant Can't Claim Breach of 'Warranty of Habitability'

What Happened: The tenant admitted to not paying its rent. The only question was whether it had a valid defense for not doing so. The tenant’s argument: The landlord violated its “warranty of habitability” by failing to fix the leaky roof. As the landlord pointed out, the lease the parties signed was a standard boilerplate form that didn’t say anything about a warranty of habitability. The warranty was implied, the tenant countered. The court disagreed and awarded the landlord $25,000 in unpaid and holdover rent. The tenant appealed.