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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
Original Source
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1995493/habib-v-thurston/ ↗

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We thus have strictly a notice case in which the court entered a protective order in the amount of the monthly rent under the lease.[9] The tenant prevailed. The question, then, is: whether a tenant whose pleadings do not—and by court rule cannot—invoke code violations as a defense or counterclaim in a notice case is entitled, nonetheless, to a McNeal hearing to contest, on the basis of alleged code violations, the landlord's right to the sums in the registry representing the rent due under the lease for the period the case was in court.