West End Tenants Ass'n v. George Washington University

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the retroactive application of 1989 amendment to TOPA to the transaction there at issue would have violated the Contract Clause
• deciding the question whether a master lease constituted a sale, and implicitly assuming for that purpose that all sales were subject to TOPA
• ―[I]f a word that should be defined in a statute is not, then its commonly accepted meaning is applied.‖
• “[T]he intent of the legislature is to be found in the language which it has used” and “[a]bsent a clearly expressed legislative intention to the contrary, that language must ordinarily be regarded as conclusive.”
• disputed factual issue must be material to avoid summary judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).