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DOE BY FEIN v. DIST. OF COLUMBIA

No. 96-SP-1242.

697 A.2d 23 (1997)

Jane DOE, A Minor Child, By Her Next Friend, Leslie G. FEIN, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 19, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Seligman, with whom Jonathan Zucker, Washington, DC, was on the brief, for appellant.

Donna M. Murasky, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Charles F.C. Ruff, Corporation Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellees.

David M. Becker, Katherine H. Gibson, and Arthur B. Spitzer, Washington, DC, filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area as Amicus Curiae.

Before TERRY and STEADMAN, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

TERRY, Associate Judge:

We are presented here with a question of law certified to us under D.C.Code § 11-723 (1995) by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.1 The issue is whether the plaintiff's claims for negligence against the District of Columbia and two of its employees are barred because of her failure to give the requisite notice to the District under D.C.Code § 12-309 (1995).

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