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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Robert L. Lennon v. United States Theatre Corporation, 920 F.2d 996 (1990)

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Robert L. Lennon v. United States Theatre Corporation, 920 F.2d 996 (1990)
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Robert L. Lennon v. United States Theatre Corporation, 920 F.2d 996 (1990)
Effective Date
1990-12-07

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As § 17 apparently applies to any circumstance under which the landlord may cause the leasehold to “cease or terminate” (the trigger event for § 23’s remedies), the tenant’s analysis would drain the latter provision of all meaning; where § 23 created remedies, its interaction with § 17 would destroy them. Indeed, the tenant so argued at oral argument. The tenant cites no District of Columbia decision applying the inference against the drafter in so draconian a fashion: destroying one of two arguably conflicting clauses when there are reasonable interpretations by which both may survive, harmoniously fulfilling the probable intent of the parties. Here the most reasonable interpretation of § 17 easily reconciles it to § 23.