Don't Tear It Down, Inc. v. Washington

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WILLIAM B. JONES, Chief Judge.

On December 10, 1974, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals filed an opinion in Commissioner of District of Columbia v. Benenson, 329 A.2d 437 (1974), in which the Court affirmed the District of Columbia Superior Court which had ordered defendants-appellants to issue to plaintiffs-appellees a permit to demolish the nonstructural elements of the Willard Hotel. The parties to that action are respectively the government and private defendants herein. Plaintiffs in this action seek a declaratory judgment that the Pennsylvania Avenue…