COOK v. EDGEWOOD MANAGEMENT CORP.

No. 00-CV-1011.

825 A.2d 939 (2003)

Tuwana COOK, Appellant, v. EDGEWOOD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 12, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barak Cohen, Student Attorney (No. 9389), and Dorene M. Haney, Supervising Attorney, with whom Tom Spiggle, Student Attorney (No. 10022), Veronica Meade Sheppard, Student Attorney (No. 10011), and Ann Marie Hay, Executive Director, D.C. Law Students in Court, were on the briefs, for appellant.

Lisa J. Dessel, with whom Rena Schild, Washington, DC, was on the brief, for appellee.

Before RUIZ and REID, Associate Judges, and FERREN, Senior Judge.


REID, Associate Judge:

This case concerns a complaint filed by the landlord, appellee Edgewood Management Corp. ("Edgewood") to evict appellant Tuwana Cook, her children and grandchildren, from an apartment unit in a District of Columbia housing complex located in a neighborhood with a reputation for substantial drug activity. The complaint was based on the District of Columbia Residential Drug-Related Evictions Act of 1990 ("the RDEA"), and a federal regulation concerning...

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