Questão jurídica principal
Whether the conciliation procedure was defective because the tenants did not specify the reduced rent amount before the conciliation authority.
Decisão extraída
No. For rent disputes, federal law required conciliation but did not prescribe formal requirements for seizing the conciliation authority or stating the dispute. A request to reduce rent was sufficient to identify the subject of conciliation.
Fundamentação extraída
The conciliation phase took place before the unified CPC entered into force and was governed by then-applicable federal and cantonal law. Nothing in federal law required an early quantified claim.