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  • In re Stone

    672 A.2d 1032 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Dec 18, 1995

    The Board recommended suspension for an indefinite period until Respondent showed fitness to practice law. (Board Report III at 14.) … See Attorney Grievance Comm’n of Md. v. Protokowicz, 329 Md. 252 , 619 A.2d 100, 105 (1993) (concepts of general and specific deterrence are consistent with primary goal of discipline, which is to protect the public).

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  • Moore v. Gaither

    767 A.2d 278 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Feb 22, 2001

    See Wright v. … Since DOC personnel are not available to serve on Adjustment Boards or Housing Boards at private prisons, the regulations might have provided for alternate staffing of these bodies.

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  • Orndorff v. Cohen

    62 A.2d 794 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Dec 14, 1948

    Unemployment Compensation Board. We believe such testimony was properly excluded. … United States v. Moran, 2 Cir., 151 F.2d 661 , 167 A.L.R. 403 ; Montague v. Dougan, 68 Mich. 98 , 35 N.W. 840 ; see Palmer v. Hoffman, 318 U.S. 100 , 63 S.

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  • Capital Traction Co. v. Wathen

    35 App. D.C. 577 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Nov 1, 1910

    deep alongside the track, and extending 4 or 5 inches beyond the running board; that plaintiff did not see this excavation or hole, and, in getting down from the running board, stepped into it and was injured. … Sweet v. Louisville R. Co. 113 Ky. 15, 67 , S. W. 4.

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  • Hawes v. Chua

    769 A.2d 797 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Mar 29, 2001

    In Phillips v. … However, in another case that court allowed evidence that an expert witness was a member of the board of directors and was employed by the same liability insurer as the defendant. See Hinton & Sons v.

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  • Taylor v. United States

    866 A.2d 817 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Jan 27, 2005

    Brown v. United States, 840 A.2d 82, 88 (D.C.2004) (citations omitted). However, we consider a question concerning the application of an exception to the hearsay rule de novo. Id. … Porter v. United States, 826 A.2d 398, 410 (D.C.2003) (citing Daye v. United States, 733 A.2d 321, 327 (D.C.1999)).

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  • Daley v. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

    26 A.3d 723 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Aug 18, 2011

    See Board of Dirs. of the Wash. City Orphan Asylum v. Board of Trs. of the Wash. City Orphan Asylum, 798 A.2d 1068, 1074 (D.C.2002). … Franchise Tax Board of Cal. v. Alcan Aluminium, Ltd., 493 U.S. 331 , 336, 110 S.Ct. 661 , 107 L.Ed.2d 696 (1990). See Tooley v. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., 845 A.2d 1031, 1033 (Del.2004).

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  • Schwechter v. D.C. Department of Employment Services

    District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Jan 5, 2023

    Dep’t of Corr. v. D.C. Dep’t of Emp. … Power Co. v. Dir., Off. of Workers’ Comp.

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  • Clement v. Peoples Drug Store, Inc.

    634 A.2d 425 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Dec 2, 1993

    The shooting occurred after Clement and security guard Jerome Brown secured and closed the store premises. … Beard v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 587 A.2d 195, 199 (D.C.1991) (citing Toy v. District of Columbia, 549 A.2d 1, 6 (D.C.1988)).

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  • Barton v. Barbour

    10 D.C. 212 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Jul 1, 1881

    In Paige v. … Jur., secs. 331-334; Parker v. Browning, 8 Paige, 388 .)

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  • Crestar Bank, N.A. v. Cheevers

    744 A.2d 1043 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Feb 3, 2000

    Ford v. … Neither Exxon Corp. v. International Concrete Corp., 335 A.2d 236 (D.C.1975), nor Thomas v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Nursing Services, Inc. v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

    512 A.2d 301 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Jul 28, 1986

    See Perry v. Police & Firemen’s Retirement & Relief Board, 451 A.2d 88, 90 (D.C.1982). … See, e.g., Trexler v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 27 Pa.Commw. 180, 183-189, 365 A.2d 1341, 1344-1346 (1976). See generally Conlon v.

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  • Hall v. Field Enterprises, Inc.

    94 A.2d 479 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Feb 5, 1953

    Italian Star Line v. United States Shipping Board E. F. Corp., 2 Cir., 53 F.2d 359, 361 , 80 A.L.R. 576 . … See Italian Star Line v. United States Shipping Board E. F. Corp., supra; Gonsouland v. Rosomano, 5 Cir., 176 F. 481 ; Ellis v. Millen Hotel Co., 192 Ga. 66 , 14 S.E.2d 565 ; Priest v.

    Cited 26 timesPublished
  • Perkins v. United States

    446 A.2d 19 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · May 24, 1982

    Clark v. United States, D.C.App., 418 A.2d 1059, 1061 (1980); United States v. … The government, citing Brown v.

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  • In re Ekekwe-Kauffman

    District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Jan 27, 2022

    Fox, III, Disciplinary Counsel, and Myles V. Lynk, Senior Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, were on the brief, for the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. … The Board on Professional Responsibility unanimously agreed with that recommendation, though one Board member was recused and did not participate.

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  • Smith v. United States

    348 A.2d 891 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Dec 11, 1975

    The caller was an informant who stated that a Negro male wearing a dingy yellow shirt, brown pants, medium bush, about 5T1" to 6' tall, with big lips, was selling heroin from a cigarette package on the 1900 block of 12th … Banks v. United States, D.C.App., 305 A.2d 256 (1973); accord, United States v. Malcolm, D.C.App., 331 A.2d 329 (1975); United States v. Lee, 163 U.S.App.D.C. 330 , 501 F.2d 890 (1974); United States v.

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  • Hopkins v. United States

    274 A.2d 418 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Mar 8, 1971

    A subsequent search of Taylor uncovered a single brown leather glove. … We have recently ruled in Blue v.

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  • Tucker v. United States

    571 A.2d 797 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Mar 14, 1990

    E.g., Adams v. United States, 502 A.2d 1011, 1025-26 (D.C.1986); Brown v. United States, 244 A.2d 487, 489-90 (D.C.1968). … Urging us to defer to the trial court, however, the government, citing Brown, supra, 244 A.2d at 489-90 , and United States v. Ford, 276 U.S. App.

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  • Smith v. United States

    295 A.2d 64 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Sep 18, 1972

    Appellant was at that time carrying a brown paper bag and Officer Cunningham remembered that the suspect was carrying no such bag when he went into the zoo. … Faison (Nebeker, J., concurring), D.C.App., 278 A.2d 688 (1971); Nicks v. United States, D.C.App., 273 A.2d 256 (1971); cf. Brown v. United States, D.C.App., 289 A.2d 891 (1972). .

    Cited 35 timesPublished
  • Darnell Hawkins & Marvin Verter, Jr. v. United States

    119 A.3d 687 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Jul 9, 2015

    This court recently discussed the definition of “corruptly” in Brown v. United States, 89 A.3d 98 (D.C. 2014), where we noted that in Arthur Andersen 29 LLP v. … Hawkins’s “claim is without merit,” followed by a citation to Brown v. United States, 766 A.2d 530, 541 (D.C. 2001).

    Cited 8 timesPublished

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