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  • Richardson v. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC

    District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Sep 26, 2024

    O’Sullivan and Chasity Brown, as Substitute Trustees of the deed of trust. … See Peoples v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Dixon v. United States

    565 A.2d 72 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Oct 18, 1989

    Hawthorne v. United States, 476 A.2d 164 , 170-72 & n. 13 (D.C.1984). … You see that it is brown and black. That’s blood. You will see it if you take it out of the bag, if you care to. And you remember when I showed it to the witnesses it had been ripped and torn.

    Cited 63 timesPublished
  • Bleck v. Power

    955 A.2d 712 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Sep 4, 2008

    We addressed a similar situation in Weisberg v. … Co., Inc. v. Brown, 817 A.2d 806, 811 (D.C.2003); see also Wagner v.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Douglas v. United States

    859 A.2d 641 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Sep 30, 2004

    Adams v. United States, 558 A.2d 348, 349 (D.C.1989). … Larry Douglas boarded a Metro bus heading southbound on Georgia Avenue to go to work. He was already a little late and anxious to begin his day. The bus driver, later identified as Mr.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Robinson v. United States

    623 A.2d 1234 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · May 4, 1993

    People v. … See Lewis v.

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • B.D.S., Inc. v. Gillis

    477 A.2d 1121 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Jun 29, 1984

    Davis, President and Chairman of Board of Directors of B.D.S., Inc., a Washington, D.C. corporation, have agreed to extend all parts of the above document now recorded until property is refinanced or paid off by the Purchasers … Flack v. Laster, 417 A.2d 393 , 399 n. 11 (D.C.1980) (quoting Calamari & Perillo, The Law of Contracts 488 (1970)).

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • In re L.B.

    73 A.3d 1015 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Aug 15, 2013

    See Brown v. M St. … In Adams v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Braddock v. Smith

    711 A.2d 835 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · May 14, 1998

    (1997). 2 See also Robinson v. … Defining residency, as we have noted in other contexts, Lawrence v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Johnson v. United States

    404 A.2d 162 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Jul 2, 1979

    In Thornton v. … Thornton v. United States, supra; Herbert v. United States, D.C.App., 340 A.2d 802, 804 (1975); see also United States ex rel. Wilcox v. Johnson, 555 F.2d 155 (3d Cir. 1977).

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Cyrus v. Mondesir

    515 A.2d 736 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Oct 7, 1986

    Konecny v. District of Columbia, 447 A.2d 31, 36 (D.C.1982). … Schlecht v. Schlecht, 387 A.2d 575, 578-79 (D.C.1978).

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Starr v. United States

    8 App. D.C. 552 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · May 19, 1896

    Supervisors v. Durant, 9 Wall. 736 ; Morse v. Dewey, 3 N. H. 535; Rex v. Mayor of Grampond, 7 T. R. 699; Porter v. Goodman, 1 Cow. 413 . … Commissioner v. Smith, 10 Watts, 392 ; Boggs v. Hargrave, 16 Cal. 559 ; Post v. Leet, 8 Paige, 337 ; Brown v. Frost, 10 Paige, 243 ; Shiveley v. Jones, 6 B. Monroe, 275; Freeman on Executions, sec. 301.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Bussineau v. President of Georgetown College

    518 A.2d 423 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Nov 26, 1986

    Leary v. … In Brown v.

    Cited 107 timesPublished
  • Meta Platforms, Inc. v. District of Columbia

    District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Sep 14, 2023

    See United States v. … Benj Edwards, The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems, The Atlantic (Nov. 4, 2016).

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Williams v. United States

    641 A.2d 479 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · May 9, 1994

    “The trial court may permit introduction of such evidence if it is ‘sufficiently explanatory or illustrative or relevant testimony in the case to be of potential help to the trier of fact.’ ” Brown v. … V. 3 .

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Fowel v. Continental Life Ins. Co.

    55 A.2d 205 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Oct 20, 1947

    See Wynn v. Washington, D.C.Mun.App., 53 A.2d 275 . Philip Carey Mfg. Co. v. Dean, 6 Cir., 58 F.2d 737 , certiorari denied 287 U.S. 623 , 53 S.Ct. 78 , 77 L.Ed. 541 ; Bijur Motor Lighting Co. v. Eclipse Mach. … Cannady v. Lynch, 27 Minn. 435 , 8 N. W. 164 ; Myers v. State, 37 Tex.Cr.R. 208 , 39 S.W. 111 ; Anderson v. State, 30 Ala.App. 124 , 2 So.2d 461 , certiorari denied 241 Ala. 381 , 2 So.2d 463 .

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • In Re McDonald

    153 A.2d 651 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Aug 6, 1959

    People v. Silverstein, 121 Cal.App.2d 140 , 262 P.2d 656 ; Moquin v. State, 216 Md. 524 , 140 A.2d 914 ; State v. … Pierce, 141 Mass. 203 , 6 N.E. 830 ; Commonwealth v. Fisher, 213 Pa. 48 , 62 A. 198 ; Mill v. Brown, 31 Utah 473 , 88 P. 609 ; Milwaukee Industrial School v. Supervisors of Milwaukee County, 40 Wis. 328 . 16 .

    Questioned by District of Columbia v. I. P., 1975 D.C. App. LEXIS 340 (1975)Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Smith v. United States

    525 A.2d 200 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Apr 29, 1987

    See also Brown v. … .”); Brown v. Texas, supra; see also Johnson, supra, 496 A.2d at 601 and cases from other jurisdictions cited n. 8 (Mack, J., dissenting).

    Vacated by Smith v. United States, 1987 D.C. App. LEXIS 528 (1987)Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Durant v. United States

    551 A.2d 1318 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Dec 16, 1988

    of insured’s statements indicating he was contemplating suicide; (5) report of psychiatrist’s consultation resulting from contemplated suicide; (6) psychiatric diagnosis; and (7) the transcript of Walter Reed Hospital’s Board … In his dissent, Judge Edgerton argued that all of the proffered medical records (except for the transcript of the Board of Officers’ proceedings) should have been admitted under the federal shopbook statute.

    Cited 30 timesPublished
  • George Hyman Construction Co. v. District of Columbia

    315 A.2d 175 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Feb 11, 1974

    The court cited the recent case of Berenter v. … Co. v. Lowell, 274 Mass. 477 , 175 N.E. 73 (1931) ; York & York Construction Co. v. Alexander, D.C.App., 296 A.2d 710, 714 (1972).

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Spencer v. Spencer

    494 A.2d 1279 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · Jun 26, 1985

    Spencer has moved to New Hampshire where she has a home with sufficient room for the children and the children have familial ties, (2) two of the three children are now in boarding school “far from the District of Columbia … On the other hand, they contemplated at the time of their agreement that all the children eventually would be in boarding school and thus at the marital home for only limited periods of time.

    Cited 19 timesPublished

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