Legal Opinion
Lofton v. Kator & Scott
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 18, 2002No. Nos. 00-CV-1644, 01-CV-155PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Senior Judge.
Before this court are an appeal and a cross-appeal challenging the trial court’s orders of November 17, 2000, dismissing Kator & Scott’s complaint and Lofton’s counterclaim. The only issue is whether the trial judge abused his discretion in dismissing the complaint and counterclaim based solely on the parties’ complete inaction with respect to their claims for at least fourteen-and-a-half months. We remand the case to the trial court for further proceedings in light of what we have said in this opinion.
While the trial judge did not refer specifically to Super. Ct. Civ. R.…
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