District of Columbia Court of Appeals Decisions 2025
Date: March 13, 2025
Docket Number: 22-AA-0047
Justia Opinion Summary: Paul Porter applied twice to register a firearm, but the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) denied his applications, citing a previous weapons offense conviction in Maryland. The Maryland records…
Date: March 6, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CF-0455
Justia Opinion Summary: Clifton A. Browne was involved in a physical altercation with Luther Brooks in the basement unit of a house owned by Valerie Mann. The altercation began after Browne, who was helping Mann with repairs, confronted Brooks…
Date: March 6, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-CV-0516, 23-CV-0775
Justia Opinion Summary: DCA Capitol Hill LTAC, LLC and DCA Capitol Hill SNF, LLC (collectively, “DCA”) leased a property from Capitol Hill Group (“CHG”) in Northeast Washington, DC, to operate a long-term acute care hospital and skilled nursing…
Date: March 3, 2025
Docket Number: 23-PR-0733
Date: March 3, 2025
Docket Number: 24-FM-0257
Date: February 28, 2025
Docket Number: 19-SP-0767
Date: February 27, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CV-0601
Date: February 27, 2025
Docket Number: 24-AA-0010
Justia Opinion Summary: The petitioner, Lin Luo, sought review of a final order from the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) that determined her ineligible for unemployment benefits from April 5, 2023, to June 28, 2023. Luo was terminated…
Date: February 26, 2025
Docket Number: 22-CV-0976
Date: February 25, 2025
Docket Number: 24-CV-0420
Date: February 24, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CV-0450
Date: February 21, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CF-0936
Date: February 20, 2025
Docket Number: 22-FS-0138
Justia Opinion Summary: T.B., a juvenile, was adjudged delinquent by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for carrying a pistol without a license and possessing unregistered ammunition. The case arose from two Instagram live videos…
Date: February 20, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CM-1067
Justia Opinion Summary: In early September 2023, Niya Ross left her dog, Cinnamon, in her car for over an hour on a hot day. The car was parked in the shade with the windows slightly open. A passerby, Zachary Vasile, heard the dog barking and…
Date: February 13, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CV-0082
Justia Opinion Summary: Samuel Murray, a motor-vehicle operator for the District of Columbia Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS), was wrongfully terminated after taking leave due to an injury sustained at work. In September 2020,…
Date: February 12, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CM-0532
Date: February 11, 2025
Docket Number: 22-CV-0822
Date: February 11, 2025
Docket Number: 24-FM-0123
Date: February 10, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CV-0464
Date: February 7, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-CV-0625, 23-CV-1038, 24-CV-0651, 24-CV-0583
Date: February 6, 2025
Docket Numbers: 17-CF-0544, 20-CO-0058
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves William Donnette Sanders, who was convicted of multiple possessory offenses related to drugs, a gun, and other paraphernalia found in his car. The police discovered these items during a search of…
Date: February 6, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CO-0081
Date: February 6, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-CV-0411, 23-CV-0412
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants Marilyn Kubichek and Dorothy Baldwin were injured on October 11, 2019, when they were struck by a Segway operated by Eduardo Samonte during a guided tour run by Unlimited Biking Washington, D.C., LLC. They…
Date: February 6, 2025
Docket Number: 24-CV-0397
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Charles E. Wilson filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia Board of Elections, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, and the District of Columbia, challenging the proposed ballot Initiative 83, also known as the…
Date: February 5, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CV-0584
Date: February 4, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-CV-0656, 23-CV-0673
Date: February 3, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CF-0494
Date: January 30, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-CV-0274, 22-CV-0301
Justia Opinion Summary: A national news reporter employed by a prominent newspaper sued her employer and six of its editors in Superior Court, alleging violations of the D.C. Human Rights Act and the common law tort of negligent infliction of…
Date: January 29, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CF-0808
Date: January 29, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-CM-1063, 23-CM-1064
Date: January 28, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CV-0905
Date: January 28, 2025
Docket Number: 24-CV-0068
Date: January 27, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CV-0774
Date: January 23, 2025
Docket Numbers: 24-CV-0497, 24-CV-0011
Date: January 21, 2025
Docket Number: 24-CV-0091
Date: January 17, 2025
Docket Number: 24-AA-0241
Date: January 10, 2025
Docket Number: 23-AA-0699
Justia Opinion Summary: Dennis Neal, a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning technician at Howard University Hospital, was injured on the job when a ladder gave way beneath him. He experienced pain and underwent spinal surgery. After…
Date: January 10, 2025
Docket Number: 24-CO-0362
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the appellant, Mr. McClam, was charged with first-degree premeditated murder while armed and two counts of assault with intent to kill while armed (AWIKWA) following two shootings that occurred within…
Date: January 8, 2025
Docket Number: 24-AA-0154
Date: January 6, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CV-0874
Date: January 6, 2025
Docket Number: 23-CV-0933
Date: January 2, 2025
Docket Number: 24-BG-0205
Justia Opinion Summary: Matthew A. LeFande, a suspended member of the District of Columbia Bar, was found by the Board on Professional Responsibility to have committed seven violations of the District of Columbia and Maryland Rules of…
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