73-75 Main Avenue, LLC v. PP Door Enterprise, Inc., 991 A.2d 650 (2010)

Citation: 73-75 Main Avenue, LLC v. PP Door Enterprise, Inc., 991 A.2d 650 (2010)
Parent Document: 73-75 Main Avenue, LLC v. PP Door Enterprise, Inc., 991 A.2d 650 (2010)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 2010-03-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2273167/73-75-main-avenue-llc-v-pp-door... ↗

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214 Conn. 256, 571 A.2d 696 (1990), our Supreme Court answered the question that the defendants now raise. In that case, the court explained that, “[d]espite the familiar reference to the judicial district courtroom where the judge assigned to hear housing matters presides as the housing court, our statutes create no such special jurisdictional entity. Housing matters are included within the jurisdiction of the Superior Court .... The evident purpose of the statutes and rules relating to the divisions of the Superior Court was not to impose any jurisdictional limitation on judges but to achieve greater efficiency in the administration of the judicial department. . . . A judge assigned to the housing division at a particular judicial district is authorized by [General Statutes] § 47a-70 (a), after a case has first been placed on the housing docket, to transfer such matter to the regular docket for a geographical area or judicial district if he determines that such matter is not a housing matter or that such docket is more suitable for the disposition of the case.” (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Id., 262. However, “[e]ven if it were clear that [a] complaint fails to allege circumstances constituting a housing matter as defined by [General Statutes] § 47a-68, it is plain that such a deficiency did not deprive the trial court of jurisdiction over the action. A judge of the Superior Court assigned to hear housing matters does not lose his general authority to hear any cause of action pending in that court. Since the plaintiffs’ action was properly brought to the Superior Court, the trial judge, as a *158

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