Lawsuits

Meet Karl Racine, the city official suing the president.

Peebles Corp.’s abrupt termination of a contract to develop city-owned land at Fifth and Eye streets NW leaves many questions, among them, whether it is still pursuing any of the affordable housing projects associated with the hotel…

Karl Racine seeks private legal counsel for "Exxon knew" investigation, potential lawsuit

Peebles Corp. notified the District on Monday that it was terminating its contract to develop the city-owned site at Fifth and Eye streets NW, putting the future of the long-delayed SLS Hotel and condo project in further jeopardy.

For the fourth time in the past year, the District is accusing families from the Maryland suburbs of fraudulently claiming to live in the city so their children could attend D.C. public schools. And three of the seven adults named in…

Several activists who live in the Deanwood section of the Ward 7, led by well-known political figure Dorothy Douglas, fell short last week in D.C. Superior Court in a bid to stop a fire station from being built in their immediate…

A D.C. real estate developer is suing Peebles Corp., several related entities and the D.C. government, alleging Peebles has unfairly replaced it as the certified business enterprise on the forthcoming hotel and condos project at Fifth and…

A D.C. Superior Court judge last week rejected a prominent D.C. Black Lives Matter activist’s request to compel D.C. police to hand over documents she says indicate that the Metropolitan Police Department has been surveilling her for…

A Maryland man collected more than $120,000 by fraudulently renting out soccer fields that belong to D.C. Public Schools, District officials allege in a court file unsealed Friday.

A federal court recently dismissed a suit that challenged a new D.C. regulation that requires lead teachers in District child development centers to earn associate degrees and boosts education credentials for other teachers and caregivers.…

A D.C. woman has filed suit against the District of Columbia Housing Authority for cutting her voucher benefits after she divorced her allegedly abusive husband, despite several attempts from her and her legal counsel to advise DCHA of her…

It wasn’t the first time the 45-year-old woman’s husband had verbally abused her. But last September, he “spiraled out of control,” she said. In front of their children in their Northeast D.C. living room, he threatened to stab her to…

The District has dropped the lawsuit it filed in December against Providence Health System and its nonprofit parent, St. Louis-based Ascension Health, over the D.C. hospital's closure plans.

The D.C. residents who live close to the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue in Northeast want affordable housing in their neighborhood — not a fire station — and they recently went to court to make that…

Years ago, as Black Lives Matter DC railed against the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), core organizer April Goggans often posted online about a marked police car parked in front of her home and other instances of alleged…

Only three households remain at Barry Farm, the historic 444-unit public housing community the District and its partners hope to redevelop in the coming years.

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit intended to block controversial D.C. regulations requiring many of the city’s child-care workers to earn associate degrees.

When restaurants pay kitchen workers a fixed salary, employees can miss out on overtime and minimum wages. Some have fought back by filing suits.