Legal Opinion
Miller v. District of Columbia Board of Appeals & Review
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 31, 1972No. 6144PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KERN, Associate Judge:
The Department of Economic Development (Department) denied petitioner a vendor’s license to sell costume jewelry which he had learned to handcraft while imprisoned in the Lorton Reformatory.1 Petitioner, with the approval of prison authorities, had sold his handiwork to customers on the “outside”. Once he had obtained a license he planned to sell, on a part-time basis, these products to his “clients.” The denial was based solely on his criminal record, which consisted of convictions in the District of Columbia for assault, housebreaking and larceny, and, most recently in…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Barton Trucking Corp. v. O'ConnellNew York Court of Appeals · 1959
- Weiner v. Borough of Stratford, County of CamdenSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1954
- Busey v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1943
- Busey v. District of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Kaufman v. Taxicab BureauCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1964
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Haight v. District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control BoardDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1981
- Woods v. District of Columbia Nurses' Examining BoardDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1981
- Lightfoot v. District of ColumbiaDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2004
- Aikens v. District of Columbia Department of Housing & Community DevelopmentDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1986
- Aikens v. District of Columbia Department of Housing & Community DevelopmentDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1986
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