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ATHRIDGE v. IGLESIAS

Nos. CIV.A.89-1222 JMF, CIV.A.92-1868 JMF.

355 F.Supp.2d 230 (2005)

Thomas P. ATHRIDGE et al., Plaintiffs, v. Jorge IGLESIAS et al., Defendants. Thomas P. ATHRIDGE et al., Plaintiffs, v. Hilda RIVAS, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

January 12, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Belsome Long, William Joseph Rodgers, Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, Joseph Hayes Koonz, Jr., Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, Depaolis & Lightfoot, Michael H. Selter, Manelli, Denison & Selter, Washington, DC, Martin Stanley Protas, Rockville, MD, Lisa Rene Riggs, Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison & Lewis, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiffs.

Irving Starr, Richard Edward Starr, Alexandria, VA, Alan Russell Siciliano, Decaro, Doran, Siciliano, Gallagher & Deblasis, L.L.P., Lanham, MD, David F. Grimaldi, Martell, Donnelly, Grimaldi & Gallagher, P.A., Washington, DC, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FACCIOLA, United States Magistrate Judge.

At trial, a crucial question arose concerning how the jury should be instructed as to the significance of the rebuttable presumption created by the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act ("MVSRA"), D.C.Code § 50-1301.08. This issue is complicated and made no clearer by the serious dispute as to the significance of various presumptions that the law creates. See David W. Louisell, Construing...

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