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| In re Estate of Marguerite L. Corsetti, Nos. 06-PR-1477 & 07-PR-415,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, July 26, 2007, Filed
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Overview: Because a witness certification under D.C. Super. Ct. R. Civ. P. 54-I was to be filed within a specified amount of time before a litigant could recover statutorily authorized costs, trial court decisions which effectively foreclosed that recovery fell within the appellate court's review authority.
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| King v. Berindoague, No. 05-CV-879,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, July 26, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Judgment of possession to the landlords was reversed for further proceedings because the court erred in denying the tenants their right to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment as they attempted to file a written demand for a jury trial pursuant to D.C. Super. Ct. R.P. Land. & Ten. R. 6, but the clerk's office was unwilling to accept it.
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| Purcell v. Thomas, No. 03-CV-1038,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, July 26, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Trial court did not err in not dismissing employee's sexual harassment hostile work environment claim filed pursuant to District of Columbia Human Rights Act, D.C. Code § 2-1401 et seq.; she could file the claim even though initial portion of it may have occurred outside limitations period and a jury could have found the claim was timely filed.
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| Robinson v. United States, No. 03-CF-1180,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, July 26, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Statement made without evidence of coercion, where defendant showed level of cognitive ability sufficient to make knowing and intelligent waiver of Miranda rights was admissible. Evidence, including threat made to victim and fact defendant was seen leaving murder scene with bat with victim's blood on it, supported second-degree murder conviction.
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| Scott v. Crestar Fin. Corp., No. 99-CV-694,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, July 26, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Record in employment discrimination case, based on national origin and retaliation, supported judge's view that compensatory award of one million dollars to employee who disclosed personal information of another employee to third party, was excessive; award was extraordinarily disproportionate to losses claimed and did indeed shock the conscience.
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