Baltimore v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the declarations did not reveal “any specific complaint about the denial of other shelter during severe weather conditions”
• reinforcing that “[t]he tort of conversion involves an unlawful exercise of ownership, dominion, and control over the personalty of another in denial or repudiation of his right to such property.”
• “By enacting the HSRA, the Council of the District of Columbia sought to implement the concept of ‘continuum of care’ to address the problem of homelessness in the District of Columbia.”
• “We have established above that except for the right to shelter in severe or frigid weather . . . the District’s legislature has not created a statutory entitlement to nor a protected property right or interest in shelter or shelter services.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).