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OLEVSKY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 85-331.

548 A.2d 78 (1988)

Joseph OLEVSKY, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 16, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Venable, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Mary L. Wilson, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before TERRY, STEADMAN, and SCHWELB, Associate Judges.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Laws making it a crime for an employer willfully to refuse to pay those in his employ the wages that are properly due are said to have as their purpose the protection of employees from "the greed of corporate capital." State v. Feist, 115 R.I. 201, 341 A.2d 725, 728 (1975). The principal question in this case is whether an individual employer charged with transgressing such proscriptions, who claims...

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