KENNEDY v. DC RENTAL HOUSING COM'N

No. 96-AA-830.

709 A.2d 94 (1998)

Robyn KENNEDY, et al., and Hampton House Tenants Association, Petitioners, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RENTAL HOUSING COMMISSION, Respondent. Ronald L. Shapiro, t/a Shapiro & Company, Intervenor Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 2, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian J.H. Lederer, Washington, DC, for petitioners.

Vincent Mark J. Policy, Washington, DC, for intervenor respondent.

Jo Anne Robinson, Interim Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, filed a statement in lieu of brief for respondent.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, and STEADMAN and REID, Associate Judges.


STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

This appeal involves the proper application of the statute of limitations to tenant challenges of rents charged by their landlords. More specifically, the question presented is whether tenants may challenge rent charges, where they are asserted to exceed the lawful rent ceiling based solely on a single improper ceiling adjustment made some eight years previously and, therefore, not itself subject to direct attack because of the three-year...

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