Court Opinion

ID: 9576413
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:24:16.309307+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:07:20.445997
License: Public Domain

*1053ZIMMERMAN, Justice,
concurring and dissenting:
¶37 I dissent from the affirmance of the summary judgment for the reasons stated by Associate Chief Justice Durham in that portion of her opinion discussing Sparks’ section 3604(b) claim. I agree with her that material facts are in dispute that preclude a summary judgment and that the defendant landlord cannot rely upon other alleged violations of the lease agreement until after the unlawful discrimination claim is adjudicated.
¶38 I join the majority in refusing to consider other issues. The language that Justice Durham relies upon from Kaiserman Associates, Inc. v. Francis Town, 977 P.2d 462 (Utah 1998), to justify addressing those claims was never intended to sweep aside our usual requirements for preserving error and for raising issues in an orderly fashion. It may be true that on occasion this court, like all appellate courts, reaches out to decide issues that are not presented as they should be. But those occasions are the exception, not the rule. And we have been careful to keep those cases the exception so that the refining process that occurs through proper claim preservation and development through the trial and appellate courts brings issues to us fully developed and briefed, and with the benefit of thorough consideration by other judges in the trial and intermediate appellate courts. In my view, the present situation is not one that warrants giving the other issues addressed by Justice Durham exceptional treatment.