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Section 45-2552

Citation
Section 45-2552
Parent Document
Twyman v. Johnson, 655 A.2d 850 (1995)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1995-03-13

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641 A.2d 159, 164 (D.C.1994). The Rental Housing Act confers an entitlement to damages on tenants, but it does so in highly restricted fashion. Only the Rent Administrator and Rental Housing Commission are expressly authorized to award damages, and then only for two forms of conduct — albeit important ones — among the many that may constitute retaliatory action: unlawful rent increases and unlawful reduction or elimination of services. D.C.Code § 45-2591(a) (permitting treble rent refund and/or roll back). We think it improbable that the legislature, having provided thus specifically for damages, meant also to create a cause of action in court for civil damages without expressly having said so. Karahalios v. National Fed’n of Fed. Employees Local 1263,