Legal Opinion
Atkins v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 5, 1971No. 5786, 5808 and 5843PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KERN, Associate Judge.
The narrow question presented by these appeals is whether a landlord’s action for possession of premises has become moot where the record shows only that (1) counsel for both parties represented to the trial court when the cases were called for trial that the tenants had vacated the premises sometime during an eight-month period between the filing of the complaints and trial date and (2) counsel for the tenants (appellants) moved in open court to dismiss the complaints for mootness. 1 The trial court upon these facts and without giving any reason refused to grant…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Mills v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Brown v. Southall Realty CompanyDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1968
- Trans-Lux Radio City Corp. v. Service Parking Corp.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1947
- John Rudder and Doris Rudder v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1955
- Parker v. SagerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Athanasios Konstantinidis and Vasiliki Konstantinidis, His Wife v. C. N. Chen, M. DCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1980
- Grayson v. AT & T CORP.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2011
- Ali Baba Co., Inc. v. Wilco, Inc.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1984
- District of Columbia v. WaltersDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1974
- Joyner v. Jonathan Woodner Co.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1984
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