MEMORANDUM OPINION [Dkt. # 32] RICHARD J. LEON , United States District Judge . Currently pending before this Court is the Government's Motion to Dismiss Indictment [Dkt. # 32], pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a), as to all defendants — Joseph Borges, Charles Greer, Darnell Jackson, and Corey Rich ("defendants'"), who have been charged, inter alia, with a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. See Superseding...
OPINION ROSEMARY M. COLLYER , District Judge . E.L. Haynes Public Charter school (E.L. Haynes) seeks judicial review of a Hearing Officer's Determination and Order (HOD) rendered in favor of chaun Frost, the parent and next friend of A.T., a minor, 1 following an administrative due process hearing under the Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq. E.L. Haynes challenges the factual and legal conclusions of the HOD and the Order...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER PAUL L. FRIEDMAN , United States District Court Judge . This matter is before the Court on Claimant Pavel Lazarenko's Motion For Leave to File Under Seal [Dkt. 513]. On September 29, 2015, the Court issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order [Dkt. 462] granting another motion for leave to file under seal in this case subject to, inter alia , the following three conditions: 1. If the Court grants a motion for leave to file under seal any documents of any nature,...
MEMORANDUM OPINION ROYCE C. LAMBERTH , District Judge . In this case, plaintiff, Anthony Rivera, brought an action pro se against JPMorgan Chase Bank ("Chase") for damages and injunctive relief, alleging two violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA"), 15 U.S.C. 1681s-2(a) and 1681s-2(b), and common law defamation. Compl. 7-10. On October 26, 2015, this Court granted Chase's motion to dismiss because the plaintiff's FCRA claims were time-barred and because the plaintiff's...
MEMORANDUM OPINION COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY , District Judge . This case comes before the Court on Defendant's [6] Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction, in which Defendant moves to dismiss this case for lack of personal jurisdiction and for improper venue. After considering Defendant's Motion to Dismiss and the parties' briefs, the Court issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order on December 15, 2015, finding that this Court lacks personal jurisdiction over Defendant and that this Court is...
MEMORANDUM OPINION COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY , District Judge . The Court is in receipt of Plaintiff's [10] Supplemental Memorandum and Reconsideration, wherein Plaintiff requests that the Court reconsider its determination that it lacks personal jurisdiction over Defendant. See Memorandum Opinion and Order, ECF No. [9]. Having carefully considered Plaintiff's Supplemental Memorandum and Reconsideration, the Court concludes that Plaintiff has provided no basis for the Court to alter or...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER PAUL L. FRIEDMAN , District Judge . Counsel for Claimant Lazarenko has sent several letters to the Court's chambers. Counsel are admonished that the Rules of this Court do not allow direct contact between the Court and counsel by letter, fax, or email unless the Court has so directed or requested, which it has not in this case. See Local Civil Rule 5.1(a) ("Except when requested by a judge, correspondence shall not be directed by the parties or their...
MEMORANDUM OPINION EMMET G. SULLIVAN , District Judge . Pending before the Court is Defendant Martin J. Gruenberg's ("Defendant") Motion to Dismiss or Transfer for improper venue. Mot. Dismiss or Transfer, Docket No. 6. Upon consideration of the motion, the response and reply thereto, the applicable law, and the entire record, the Defendant's Motion to Dismiss is DENIED and Defendant's Motion to Transfer is GRANTED. I. Background Plaintiff Richard K. Ellis ("Plaintiff") alleges that...
MEMORANDUM OPINION ROYCE C. LAMBERTH , District Judge . This case comes before the Court on petitioner's Motion [453] for an Order to Show Cause as to why an Order should not issue requiring the Department of Defense ("DOD") to (1) promptly provide petitioner a hearing before a Periodic Review Board; (2) cease interfering with petitioner's access to this habeas Court; and (3) cease imposing arbitrary and severe restrictions on petitioner's conditions of confinement. Upon consideration of...
ORDER ROYCE C. LAMBERTH , District Judge . Upon consideration of petitioner's Motion [453] for an Order to Show Cause, respondents' Response and petitioner's Reply thereto, the arguments made in open court on November 24, 2015, the entire record in this case, and the applicable law, it is hereby ORDERED that petitioner's Motion is DENIED. It is further ORDERED that respondents shall, within fourteen days of the date of this Order, file with the Court an explanation of the...
MEMORANDUM OPINION G. MICHAEL HARVEY UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE . This matter has been referred to the undersigned for the management of discovery and resolution of all discovery disputes. Before the Court is plaintiff's motion to compel defendant Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ("WMATA") to produce a disciplinary memorandum it issued to its employee, Christopher Hamlin, relating to the accident at issue in this case. This motion is ripe for resolution. Upon...
MEMORANDUM OPINION RICHARD J. LEON , United States District Judge . Plaintiff Evelyn Parham ("plaintiff") brings this suit against CIH Properties, Inc. and Dupont Park Apartments Joint Venture (together "defendants"), seeking damages based on allegations that her car was towed and never returned to her in violation of various federal and local laws. See generally Compl. [Dkt. # 1-1]. Before this Court is defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment [Dkt. # 23] ("Defs.' Mot."). Upon...
MEMORANDUM OPINION RANDOLPH D. MOSS , District Judge . Plaintiff Barbara Nichols, proceeding pro se, is an African-American woman who worked as an investigator at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ("APHIS") of the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA"). See Dkt. 1 at 1 (Compl. 2). At the time she began work at APHIS, Plaintiff was approximately 53 years old. See id. She alleges that, in the course of her employment, the USDA discriminated against her on the...
MEMORANDUM OPINION COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY , District Judge . Having carefully considered pro se Plaintiffs' [21] Motion for Reconsideration under Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) and Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b), the Court concludes that Plaintiffs have provided no basis for the Court to alter or amend the judgment issued in this case on December 4, 2015. Motions under Rule 59(e) are "disfavored" and the moving party bears the burden of establishing "extraordinary circumstances" warranting relief from a...
MEMORANDUM OPINION COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY , District Judge . This case comes before the Court on Defendant's [6] Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction, in which Defendant moves to dismiss this case for lack of personal jurisdiction and for improper venue. After considering Defendant's Motion to Dismiss and the parties' briefs, the Court issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order on December 15, 2015, finding that this Court lacks personal jurisdiction over Defendant and that this Court is...
MEMORANDUM OPINION COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY , District Judge . The Court is in receipt of Plaintiff's [10] Supplemental Memorandum and Reconsideration, wherein Plaintiff requests that the Court reconsider its determination that it lacks personal jurisdiction over Defendant. See Memorandum Opinion and Order, ECF No. [9]. Having carefully considered Plaintiff's Supplemental Memorandum and Reconsideration, the Court concludes that Plaintiff has provided no basis for the Court to alter or...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AMIT P. MEHTA , District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION This case concerns events that led Plaintiff Janice Edwards to sell a residential property in Northeast Washington, D.C., which she had owned since at least 2003. In late 2008, the District of Columbia's Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs designated Plaintiff's property as "vacant," resulting in a substantial increase in her annual property tax for the 2009 tax year. Plaintiff never paid the increased tax...
MEMORANDUM OPINION Amit P. Mehta , United States District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Loretta Hillware filed a lawsuit pro se in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against the owner of the Washington Redskins, Daniel Snyder; the team's Vice President and General Counsel, Eric Schaffer; the team's President, Bruce Allen; the Commissioner of the National Football League ("NFL"), Roger Goodell; and the NFL's Counsel, Jay Bauman, all in their "official" capacities....
MEMORANDUM OPINION GRANTING IN PART & DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND GRANTING IN PART & DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT'S CROSS MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT Re Document Nos. 11, 12. RUDOLPH CONTRERAS , District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION In this action, Plaintiffs Jaden McNeil, Patrick Canavan, and Daniel McNeil (collectively "Plaintiffs") seek from Defendant the District of Columbia ("the District") an award of attorneys' fees and costs incurred in pursuing an...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY , District Judge . Plaintiff 2910 Georgia Avenue LLC filed suit against the District of Columbia, Mayor Vincent C. Gray, and Michael P. Kelly in his official capacity as Director for the Department of Housing and Community Development ("DHCD"), alleging that the District of Columbia's Inclusionary Zoning Program ("IZ Program") constitutes an unconstitutional taking and violates Plaintiff's substantive due process and equal protection...
