Key legal question
Whether the tenant’s partial claim was sufficiently pleaded and could seek reimbursement of lease-related costs without specifying the order of itemized claims.
Extracted holding
The partial claim was sufficiently substantiated; the plaintiff need only allege a claim exceeding the amount sued for, not specify the order of allocation among several items.
Extracted reasoning
Federal substantive law governs the level of factual substantiation. A creditor entitled to demand part of a debt must also be able to sue for that part; allocation of partial payments is governed by the Civil Code, not by the plaintiff’s pleading order.