District of Columbia v. 17M Associates, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] lessee’s possessory interest, although an interest in real property, is ultimately a species of personal property.” (emphasis in original)
• “[A] lessee’s possessory interest, although an interest in real property, is ultimately a species of personal property.” (emphasis in original)
• “‘[The purported exercise of jurisdiction beyond that conferred upon the agency by the legislature is ultra vires and a nullity.’”
• “An administrative agency is a creature of statute and may not act in excess of its statutory authority.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “There can be no question under the common law in force in this District that a leasehold interest in lands is personal property.” (quotation and internal alteration omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).