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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 45-1561

Citation
Section 45-1561
Parent Document
Habib v. Thurston, 517 A.2d 1 (1986)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1986-10-30

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The tenant does not really dispute the foregoing analysis. After asserting that she had withdrawn only her counterclaim, not her code violation defenses, supra Part II., she shifts her position by acknowledging in the petition for rehearing that Javins defenses are not permitted in a “pure notice case,” which this proceeding had become. See Super.Ct. L & T R. 5(b).8 Implicitly, therefore, she concedes that after the praecipe dismissing the nonpayment claim had been filed, all her allegations about code violations affecting the rent level had, in effect, been stricken.