EDWARDS v. HABIB

No. 20883.

397 F.2d 687 (1968)

Yvonne C. EDWARDS, Appellant, v. Nathan HABIB, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 17, 1968.

Petition for Rehearing Denied July 11, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Brian Michael Olmstead, Des Moines, Iowa, with whom Mrs. Florence Wagman Roisman, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Herman Miller, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Messrs. Charles T. Duncan, Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, Hubert B. Pair, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Richard W. Barton and David P. Sutton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, filed a brief on behalf of the District of Columbia as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Mr. Reuben B. Robertson, III, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of the National Capital Area Civil Liberties Defense and Education Fund as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Before DANAHER, WRIGHT and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.


Petition for Rehearing En Banc Denied July 11, 1968.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

In March 1965 the appellant, Mrs. Yvonne Edwards, rented housing property from the appellee, Nathan Habib, on a month-to-month basis. Shortly thereafter she complained to the Department of Licenses and Inspections of sanitary code violations which her landlord had failed to remedy. In the course of the ensuing inspection, more than 40 such violations were discovered which...

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