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Douglas v. Kriegsfeld Corp., 884 A.2d 1109 (2005)

Citation
Douglas v. Kriegsfeld Corp., 884 A.2d 1109 (2005) 2.
Parent Document
Douglas v. Kriegsfeld Corp., 884 A.2d 1109 (2005)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
2005-10-13

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2. Once again, the majority blames any delay in the case on what it calls the landlord's "refusal" to respond to the February 20 letter from counsel for the tenant. In my opinion, this ground, which made its first appearance in this case in the division majority's opinion, is completely spurious. I have dealt with it in some detail in this opinion and, more comprehensively, in my dissent in Douglas I. But even if one were to assume that the landlord had some obligation to respond to this letter, and to "open a dialogue," the failure to do so could make no difference, for Ms. Douglas' attorney could not agree to any settlement without his client's consent, and no such consent was forthcoming. The majority's cherished "dialogue" would therefore have been a monologue or a Kriegsfeldian soliloquy. The majority's theory that everything was the fault of the landlord founders on this simple undisputed and indisputable fact.