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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Suggs v. Lakritz Adler Management, L.L.C., 933 A.2d 795 (2007)

Citation
Suggs v. Lakritz Adler Management, L.L.C., 933 A.2d 795 (2007)
Parent Document
Suggs v. Lakritz Adler Management, L.L.C., 933 A.2d 795 (2007)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
2007-08-16

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It is undoubtedly true that in most actions involving claims of a tenant’s failure to cure a violation of an “obligation of tenancy” unrelated to rent payment after receiving the requisite notice, the existence of housing regulation violations will be irrelevant (except in cases of claims of retaliatory eviction). However, where housing regulation violations are asserted by a tenant and the action is based on the continual failure to pay the rent due in a timely manner, such violations cannot be irrelevant to the question of what rent was in fact “due”; that is, in the words of the statute, “the rent to which the housing provider is entitled.” 13