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WA METRO. AREA TRANSIT v. CROSS

No. 01-CV-338.

849 A.2d 1021 (2004)

WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Appellant, v. Bessie CROSS, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 20, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerard J. Stief, Associate General Counsel, with whom Cheryl C. Burke, General Counsel, Robert J. Kniaz, Deputy General Counsel, and Vincent A. Jankoski, Associate General Counsel, were on the brief, Springfield, VA, for appellant.

Lloyd D. Iglehart, with whom Kenneth Robinson was on the brief, for appellee.

Before STEADMAN, RUIZ and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges.

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge.

This case, which arises from appellee Bessie Cross's injurious fall on a Metrobus, has been in this court once before. In Cross v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), 740 A.2d 977 (D.C.1999), we reversed the trial court's grant of WMATA's motion for a directed verdict. We held that the evidence that the driver of the bus accelerated negligently and then had to slam on the brakes...

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