WINCHESTER VAN BUREN v. RENTAL HOUS. COM'N

No. 87-1130.

550 A.2d 51 (1988)

WINCHESTER VAN BUREN TENANTS ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RENTAL HOUSING COMMISSION, Respondent. Borger Management, Inc., Intervenor.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 17, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric S. Koenig, Washington, D.C., for petitioner. David M. Zolensky, was on the brief for petitioner, and Robert N. Sayler, Washington, D.C., entered an appearance for petitioner.

Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., filed a statement in lieu of brief for respondent.

Vincent Mark J. Policy, with whom Abraham J. Greenstein, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for intervenor.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and FERREN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges.


I.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Judges in this city who are called upon to decide landlord and tenant controversies in general and rent control cases in particular must accustom themselves to encounters with the esoteric and the arcane. When Judge Terry, writing for the court in Afshar v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission, 504 A.2d 1105, 1108 (D.C. 1986), characterized one sanction for "rent ceiling" violations...

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