Case law

Rector v. Walmart Inc.

District Court, District of Columbia · Aug 4, 2025

Walmart alleges that Plaintiffs qualify as members in the Kahn litigation, and because Plaintiffs are already putative members of those classes, they are not prejudiced by a stay. … Supp. 2d at 62 (transferring a second-filed case to another forum where most witnesses resided because the motions “clearly identif[ied] the purpose and relevance of each witness’s testimony”).

United States Ex Rel. K & R Ltd. Partnership v. Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency

456 F. Supp. 2d 46 · District Court, District of Columbia · Oct 11, 2006

When certain requirements are met, these units then qualify for mortgage assistance from HUD. … The parties clearly distinguished between a phase of variable rates and a phase with a fixed rate, but K & R would have the contracts establish only variable rates tied to MHFA’s borrowing costs — a concept the parties could

Wade v. District of Columbia

District Court, District of Columbia · Apr 20, 2011

See Burlington, 548 U.S. at 68 (“An employee’s decision to report discriminatory behavior cannot immunize that employee from those petty slights or minor annoyances that often take place at work and that all employees experience … Furthermore, “[c]ourts cannot examine whether any isolated action, on its own, qualifies as ‘adverse.’

Buzzfeed, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice

District Court, District of Columbia · Dec 4, 2019

To qualify for the deliberative process privilege, the draft versions of Whitaker’s OGE forms must have been both “pre-decisional” and “deliberative.” See Abtew, 808 F.3d at 898. … If it is, the Court then assesses whether disclosure would lead to “a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” See id.; 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6).

United States v. Jones

511 F. Supp. 2d 74 · District Court, District of Columbia · Sep 5, 2007

Lukens, 114 F.3d 1220, 1222 (D.C.Cir.1997) (approving the government’s use of evidence of three payments to the defendant, who had previously been acquitted of bribery based on the same conduct, “to establish the background … (“An act need not be independently illegal in order to qualify as an overt act for the purposes of a conspiracy charge.”); Rossetti v.

Muslim Advocates v. United States Department of Justice

833 F. Supp. 2d 92 · District Court, District of Columbia · Nov 10, 2011

“Under [the] public-domain doctrine, materials normally immunized from disclosure under FOIA lose their protective cloak once disclosed and preserved in a permanent public record.” Cottone v. … reprising its waiver argument, asserting that “the same facts supporting a finding of waiver at the very least call into question whether the information the FBI seeks to protect is sufficiently ‘unknown to the public’ to qualify

Elam v. Rooftopdc LLC

District Court, District of Columbia · Nov 16, 2020

Price alleged that he and another African-American employee, Christopher Wright, were fired and replaced by a less-qualified non-African American, Juan Cruz. Id., ¶¶ 20, 37–44, 73. Mr. … Elam alleged that he was similarly replaced by a non-African American who was less qualified. Id., ¶ 105.

Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. Miski

889 F. Supp. 2d 144 · District Court, District of Columbia · Sep 6, 2012

The United States established diplomatic relations with Libya in approximately 1952 or 1953. 13. … Here, the term “Libyan Embassy” clearly conveys consular services as the term “Vision Center” conveyed the delivery of optical services and, moreover, does not require the imaginativeness needed to associate sun tanning

Bauer v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

District Court, District of Columbia · Sep 20, 2023

' pursuit of their claims in state court by ensuring they would receive nothing even if they established the banks' liability. … "[T]he golden parachute provisions focus on qualifying payments, not on qualifying institutions." BEX Cap. v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp., 956 F.3d 1304, 1315 (11th Cir. 2020) (emphases added).

United States v. Exxon Corp.

561 F. Supp. 816 · District Court, District of Columbia · Mar 25, 1983

File concluded, was inconsistent with the regulations’ purpose and therefore was “clearly not within [their] intent.” Id. Mr. … Indeed, when the agency intended such a discriminatory result, it stated its aim clearly.

National Ass'n for Community Development v. Hodgson

356 F. Supp. 1399 · District Court, District of Columbia · Mar 30, 1973

defendants, such activities being illegal under Section 1913, and if the court finds that plaintiffs may sue to redress those injuries even though the statute itself includes only criminal remedies, then the plaintiffs would qualify … The principle seems well established that a district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.

Toledano Ex Rel. Estate of deToledano v. O'Connor

501 F. Supp. 2d 127 · District Court, District of Columbia · Aug 17, 2007

Most of plaintiffs’ challenges to the arbitration agreement clearly fall within the first category of claims that can be heard by the district court. … The provision simply does not qualify as unconscionable under California law. D. Is the Arbitration Provision Prohibitively Costly?

Antonelli v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

569 F. Supp. 2d 61 · District Court, District of Columbia · Aug 4, 2008

PL’s Mot. 4 Plaintiff has not established his entitlement to judgment against ICE because the underlying claim is not based on an original FOIA request made to ICE to trigger the statutory time limits of 5 *64 U.S.C. 552( … All information that “applies to a particular individual” qualifies for consideration under this exemption. U.S. Dep’t of State v.

Pannell v. United States of America

District Court, District of Columbia · Jun 25, 2025

That said, “[t]he police have a qualified privilege to commit both torts when using ‘reasonable force to effect an arrest, provided that the means em- ployed are not in excess of those which the actor reasonably believes … Based on this testimony, Defendant argues that Plaintiff cannot establish that any “significant injury” resulted from the strikes after he was subdued.

Walston v. United States Department of Defense

238 F. Supp. 3d 57 · District Court, District of Columbia · Feb 28, 2017

To qualify as exempt under Exemption 5, “a document must meet two conditions: its source must be a Government agency, and it must fall within the ambit of a privilege against discovery under judicial standards that would … Walston] bears the burden of establishing a legitimate public interest supporting disclosure which is in line with the core purpose of FOIA, to contribute to greater general understanding of agency practice and procedure

Estate of Esther Klieman v. Palestinian Authority

82 F. Supp. 3d 237 · District Court, District of Columbia · Mar 3, 2015

Mwani v. bin Laden, 417 F.3d at 8 (“[S]ervice of process does not alone establish personal jurisdiction. … This issue was resolved by the Court’s earlier decisions that defendants are not foreign states entitled to sovereign immunity, Klieman I, 424 F.

Dahlman v. American Association of Retired Persons (Aarp)

District Court, District of Columbia · Jun 13, 2011

The American with Disabilities Act forbids employers from discriminating against qualified employees on the basis of their disability. 5 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a). … BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY, 1151 (9th ed. 2009). 12 Speiser, 670 F.Supp. at 385 (“While plaintiff clearly suffers from a legitimate mental illness, she has failed to demonstrate

Long v. District of Columbia Housing Authority

166 F. Supp. 3d 16 · District Court, District of Columbia · Feb 29, 2016

for which the PHA has discretion to establish local policies.” 24 C.F.R. § 982.54(a). … “To have a protected property interest in a given benefit, ‘a person clearly must have more than an abstract need or desire for it. He must have more than a unilateral expectation of it.

Desa Group, Inc. v. U.S. Small Business Administration

190 F. Supp. 3d 61 · District Court, District of Columbia · May 26, 2016

Fleshman was clearly referencing TDG’s habitation of the separate DESA-owned building at 1515 Richland Road. Pl.’s Mem. Supp. at 12 (emphasis added). … Fleshman’s educational credentials, and stated that the “principal and part-time assistant appears [sic] to be well qualified and ready to go to work.” Id. at 352.

United States v. Leake

District Court, District of Columbia · Jun 26, 2020

next to impossible to conclude that that common area qualifies as curtilage that gives rise to protectible privacy interests. … See Dunn, 480 U.S. at 301 (establishing that one factor of curtilage determination is “the nature and uses to which the area is put”).