Legal Opinion
Ball v. ARTHUR WINN GENERAL PARTNERSHIP
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 20, 2006No. 05-CV-259PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FARRELL, Associate Judge:
Appellant Raesheeda Bah challenges a judgment of possession entered upon a jury finding in favor of appellee Arthur Winn General Partnership/Southern Hills Apartments (hereafter “the landlord”). The jury found that Ms. Ball’s rental apartment unit had been used as a “drug haven” such that she could be evicted under the Residential Drug-Related Evictions Act (the RDEA or the Act), D.C.Code §§ 42-3601 to -3610 (2001).
The RDEA permits a landlord to recover possession of a rental unit by proving that it “is a drug haven,” id. § 42-3602(a), defined as “a housing…
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