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Facts: For over 30 years, an auto body business rented commercial property made up of several buildings. Ten years into the lease, the tenant built a small building on the property to use as a “paint room” where it could paint cars it had repaired. A few years later, it renewed the lease for a 20-year term, with an option to purchase the property. The tenant could exercise the option at any time during the lease if it gave 60-days' notice.

Facts: The owner of a strip mall and a tenant signed a three-year lease for space in which the tenant was to operate its salon and spa.

Facts: A franchised restaurant tenant signed a lease with a property owner/developer while the shopping center where it would rent space was still being developed. The tenant as a corporation signed the lease as both tenant and guarantor.

Facts: The exclusive-use provision in a tenant's lease barred the owner from renting space in its shopping center to other tenants that sold stationary and school supplies. Several months later a school supply store opened in the center, but the tenant didn't object.

Facts: A tenant that operated a thrift store was evicted for nonpayment of rent. The owner believed the store's inventory, which the tenant had left behind, was “junk” and disposed of it without waiting 15 days—the statutory period during which tenants have an opportunity to reclaim personal property left in the space they rented.

Facts: Under its lease, a tenant was responsible for maintaining the space it rented to operate its restaurant. The tenant was also prohibited from making alterations and improvements without written approval. “Events of default” included nonperformance of these or any lease obligations and nonpayment of rent, following written notice from the owner and an opportunity to “cure”—that is, remedy—the violations.

Facts: A tenant signed a five-year lease to operate its restaurant in a strip mall. After two years, the tenant asked the owner if it could sublet the space to another restaurant tenant, but the owner refused to sign a consent agreement. The tenant went ahead with its plans to sublet its space anyway.

Facts: An employee of an office building tenant suffered injuries after she tripped and fell on a raised edge of the metal molding surrounding a trapdoor on the floor of the tenant's pantry room. The purpose of the trapdoor was to access a crawl space approximately three feet high that lies beneath the pantry room floor. The employee sued the owner for negligence and New York Health Code violations. She asked the court for a judgment in her favor without a trial.

Facts: An owner and a staffing agency tenant signed a three-year lease for office space. Under the lease terms, the owner could charge a $25-per-day late-rent fee. The owner later sued the tenant for breach of the lease, and the tenant abandoned the space before the end of the lease term. The owner exercised its right to terminate the lease and enter the space. The owner asked the court for a judgment in its favor without a trial.

Facts: While shopping, a wheelchair-bound mall customer encountered architectural barriers that she claimed discriminated against her on the basis of her disability. The customer sued the mall's owner and property manager for alleged violations of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including the “absence of auxiliary aids and services” for disabled customers.