1618 Twenty-First Street Tenants' Ass'n v. Phillips Collection

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing D.C. Code § 42- 3404.02 and observing that TOPA’s “overarching purpose is to protect tenant rights”
• applying “reasonable doubt” standard in testing validity of statutory inference of intoxication
• “In finding the ordinary meaning, ‘[t]he use of dictionary definitions is appropriate . . . .’” (quoting West End Tenants Ass’n v. George Washington Univ., 640 A.2d 718, 727 (D.C. 1994))
• Council’s failure to give “bona fide” any “special meaning” in statutory provision contrasts with other provisions indicating “the Council knew how to give ‘bona fide’ a special meaning when it deemed necessary’
• “[I]f the Council had wanted ‘bona fide’ to have a special meaning or wanted specific factual criteria or factors to be considered in assessing objective good faith, it was well within its ability to do so, as it had done in other places in the Code.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).