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U.S. v. ALSTON

Nos. 90-167, 90-168.

580 A.2d 587 (1990)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Charles S. ALSTON, Appellee. District of Columbia, Intervenor.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 13, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Zlotnick, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher, Thomas J. Tourish, Linda Mullen, Julieanne Himelstein and David H. Saffern, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellant.

Samia Fam, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, was on brief, for appellee.

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Herbert O. Reid, Sr., Corp. Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Lutz Alexander Prager, Asst. Deputy Corp. Counsel, were on the Memorandum In Lieu of Brief, for intervenor.

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

ROGERS, Chief Judge:

The issue in this appeal is whether the Council of the District of Columbia has authority under the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act (Home Rule Act), D.C.Code § 1-229(a) (1987 Repl.), to pass successive, substantially identical emergency acts to preserve the status quo while identical legislation enacted by the Council after two readings is pending before Congress for review. Appellee Charles Alston...

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