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State Courts - District of Columbia - June 29 - July 5, 2006

D.C. Metro. Police Dep't v. D.C. Pub. Emple. Rels. Bd., No. 05-CV-675, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, June 29, 2006, Decided
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Overview: District of Columbia Public Employees Relations Board's decision sustaining an arbitrator's award was affirmed because the arbitrator's interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement provision as mandatory and conclusive was not contrary on its face to any law under D.C. Code ? 1-605.02(6).

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Dorsey v. United States, No. 04-CM-1287, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, June 29, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Defendant's conviction for attempted possession of a prohibited weapon (a belt) in violation of D.C. Code ? 22-4514 was affirmed. A trier of fact could reasonably find that the belt used to discipline defendant's son was likely to produce great bodily injury and created a substantial risk of protracted loss or impairment of the function of his eye.

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Gaskins v. D.C. Hous. Auth., No. 05-CV-184, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, June 29, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Notice given by a tenant to the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) was insufficient to satisfy D.C. Code ? 6-205(a) by giving DCHA reasonable notice of the tenant's contention that DCHA caused a fatal fire. The notice gave facts about the fire but made no connection between any act by the DCHA and the fire.

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Mattete v. United States, No. 04-CM-409, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, June 29, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Testimony and demonstrations by a sexual abuse claimant as to how defendant ran his hand up her thigh were sufficient to support defendant's misdemeanor sexual abuse conviction under D.C. Code ? 22-3006 (2001), and the reviewing court would not presume that the demonstration failed to show a touching of the claimant's inner thigh.

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Savage-El v. United States, No. 03-CF-1300, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, June 29, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Defendant's conviction for carrying a dangerous weapon outside her home or business in violation of D.C. Code ? 22-4504(a) was affirmed because the evidence was sufficient to prove that defendant had carried a spray bottle of gasoline and matches while threatening to injure people. Also, the trial court did not err in instructing the jury.

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TV Capital Corp. v. Paxson Communs. Corp., No. 04-CV-1329, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, July 5, 2006, Filed
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