District of Columbia v. Towers (2021)

Citation: District of Columbia v. Towers (2021)
Parent Document: District of Columbia v. Towers (2021)
Jurisdiction: DC (municipal)
Effective Date: 2021-05-13
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4882760/district-of-columbia-v-towers/ ↗

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24-30 § 404, 68 D.C. Reg. 003101 (Mar. 17, 2021); Fairness in Renting
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       In the meantime, the District of Columbia courts had to craft their own
response to the pandemic. See Sharps v. United States, No. 20-CO-554, 2021 WL
922468, at *1 (D.C. Mar. 11, 2021) (explaining that “the Superior Court’s normal
operations” were “severely disrupted” by the pandemic). The Superior Court
continued all scheduled hearings in the vast majority of case types, including suits
for possession of residential property in the Civil Division. 12 See Order Further
Reducing D.C. Superior Court Operations (Mar. 18, 2020). Over the next several
months, the court created a new system to conduct remote court proceedings that
were intended to be both accessible to the parties and open to the public. By July,
the Civil Division was in a position to be able to address the hundreds of pending
complaints for possession that had been filed in the Landlord and Tenant Branch
after the declaration of a public health emergency (many of these complaints were
filed before the filing moratorium was enacted, but for reasons that are unexplained
in the record of this case, some number were permitted to be filed after).

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