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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In addition, the parties must expeditiously prepare pleadings for the trial court to review and certify. Because the court already has jurisdiction of the parties, they may serve these pleadings on one another as if the action already has been commenced; the formality of a separate service of process to institute the proceeding will not be necessary. As a practical matter in a nonpayment case, the existing pleadings presumably can be amended with dispatch to cover the litigation period, since the landlord will have pleaded the rental agreement and in virtually all instances the tenant will have recited the alleged code violations in the answer. In a notice case, however, the pleadings will not contain allegations germane to the McNeal hearing (unless, as in this case, code violations were *28 originally alleged in response to a nonpayment count). In either case, however, as a way of minimizing delay, the party demanding a jury shall file an amended or supplemental pleading with the jury demand, and a written response shall be due within five days (calculated pursuant to Superior Court rules). In this way, an appropriate package of pleadings will be ready for certification at the time of summary disposition or within a few days after trial. E.

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