BORGER MANAGEMENT, INC. v. NELSON-LEE

No. 07-CV-406.

959 A.2d 694 (2008)

BORGER MANAGEMENT, INC., Appellant, v. Carolyn NELSON-LEE, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip L. Felts, Bethesda, MD, with whom Emilie Fairbanks was on the brief, for appellant.

Beth Mellen Harrison, with whom Barbara McDowell filed a brief on behalf of appellee as amicus curiae, for the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.

Before FARRELL, Associate Judge, Retired, and NEBEKER and SCHWELB, Senior Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The sole issue in this appeal is whether the Rental Housing Act of 1985 requires a landlord, before suing for possession, to provide tenants with an opportunity to cure violations of tenancy obligations when six months earlier the landlord gave notice of similar violations, which the tenant cured. Appellant Borger Management invites us to read the statutory language broadly and require only one notice to cure before a landlord may issue a notice to quit...

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