Question juridique clé
Whether the tenants' lawyer could validly represent them before the Federal Supreme Court despite being linked to ASLOCA
Solution extraite
Any lack of independence would not make the response inadmissible; the court would in any event grant time to cure the defect, so the response was treated as receivable.
Motifs extraits
The court avoided a definitive ruling on independence for reasons of procedural economy and noted that a defect in representation would trigger a cure period under Art. 42(5) LTF.