District of Columbia Employee Leasing Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of District of Columbia or Court of Appeals of District of Columbia where the terms employee leasing has been mentioned. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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Mitchell v. D.C. - 8/19/1999
Appeal from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (Hon. Harold L. Cushenberry, Jr., Trial Judge)
Submitted February 18, 1999
Opinion by Senior Judge Kern, Concurring in part and Dissenting in part, at p. ____. ...
Morrison v. D.C. Dept. of Employment Services - 8/19/1999
Petition for Review of a Decision of the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services
Argued September 22, 199
This appeal presents the question whether an injured worker may receive benefits for more than one...
Capitol Hill Hospital v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services - 3/25/1999
Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Atlantic and Maryland Reporters. Users are requested to notify the Clerk of the Court of any formal errors so that corrections may be made before the bound...
Lockhart v. Cade - 3/4/1999
Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Atlantic and Maryland Reporters. Users are requested to notify the Clerk of the Court of any formal errors so that corrections may be made before the bound...
In re Piatt - 2/25/1999
Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Atlantic and Maryland Reporters. Users are requested to notify the Clerk of the Court of any formal errors so that corrections may be made before the bound...
Knight v. Georgetown University - 2/11/1999
Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Atlantic and Maryland Reporters. Users are requested to notify the Clerk of the Court of any formal errors so that corrections may be made before the bound...
Millstein v. Henske - 1/28/1999
Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Atlantic and Maryland Reporters. Users are requested to notify the Clerk of the Court of any formal errors so that corrections may be made before the bound...
Velasquez v. Department of Employment Services - 1/28/1999
Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Atlantic and Maryland Reporters. Users are requested to notify the Clerk of the Court of any formal errors so that corrections may be made before the bound...
GARY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DOES - 12/30/1998
Petitioner Cora Gary filed a claim for benefits under the District of Columbia Workers' Compensation Act, D.C.Code §§ 36-301 et seq. (1997), based on emotional injuries she allegedly suffered in the course of her employment by the...
CHERRYDALE HEATING v. DISTRICT OF COL. - 12/24/1998
On these consolidated petitions for review, we must decide whether the Director of the Department of Employment Services ("DOES") erred in awarding (in No. 96-AA-1512) and denying (in No. 97-AA-1364) further temporary total disability...
LAROSE v. DOES - 12/24/1998
The appeal in this case challenges the rate and amount of compensation ordered by the Department of Employment Services ("DOES" or "agency") to be paid to petitioner as a consequence of injuries sustained in the course of his...
WASHINGTON HOSP. CENTER v. DC DOES - 12/24/1998
In response to an appeal filed by petitioner with the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services ("DOES" or "agency"), the Director of DOES ("Director") affirmed the Hearings and Appeals Examiner's ("Hearing Examiner")...
MUNSON v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DOES - 12/24/1998
"The definition of the term 'employee' . . . has probably produced more reported cases than any definition of status in the modern history of law." 3 ARTHUR LARSON, LARSON'S WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW § 43.10, at 8-1 (1998). Petitioner...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOC. v. DC DOES - 12/24/1998
Petitioners, National Geographic Society and American Motorists Insurance Company (collectively referred to as National), seek review of a decision of the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES), requiring...
VIEIRA v. DOES - 12/10/1998
Maria Da Gloria Vieira, Administratrix for the Estate of Carlos A. Vieira, deceased, challenges the denial of her claim for workers' compensation death benefits filed pursuant to the provisions of the D.C. Workers' Compensation Act of...
WASHINGTON VISTA HOTEL v. DOES - 12/3/1998
The Washington Vista Hotel ("Vista") and its insurance carrier seek review of a decision by the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services ("DOES") awarding workers' compensation benefits to Hossein Zahedi, one of Vista's...
WASHINGTON v. GUEST SERVICES - 9/17/1998
This appeal presents two important questions regarding the application of our recent decision in Carl v. Children's Hosp., 702 A.2d 159 (D.C. 1997) (en banc) (Carl II), in which we expanded in some measure the circumstances under which...
HILL v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DOES - 9/17/1998
In this workers' compensation case, petitioner Edward Hill seeks review of a decision by the Director of the Department of Employment Services ("DOES"). The Director found that Hill had received slightly more than the proper amount of...
Roberst v. Howard University - 9/10/1998
Appeal from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (Hon. Lee F. Satterfield, Trial Judge)
Decided
On December 30, 1994, Howard University abolished appellant Roberts' position at the University and terminated his...
UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA v. MOORE - 9/3/1998
Appellant, United Mine Workers of America, International Union ("UMWA"), appeals from a judgment entered against it in a sex (gender) discrimination case brought by appellee Jean L. (Marat) Moore. Ms. Moore alleged sex...
FREAS v. ARCHER SERVICES - 9/3/1998
This case, involving the dismissal of a wrongful discharge action under Super.Ct.Civ.R. 12(b)(6) (1998), is before us for the second time. In Freas v. Archer Services, Inc., 669 A.2d 144 (D.C. 1996) (Freas I), we dismissed the case on...
WALLACE v. SKADDEN - 7/30/1998
This case presents us with two related and consolidated appeals. The first, No. 96-CV-34, arises from an action for defamation and wrongful discharge which was brought by Katherine T. Wallace, Ph.D., a former associate of the...
HICKS v. ALLEGHENY EAST CONFERENCE ASS'N - 6/11/1998
Antoinette Hicks, a teacher at a private school in the District, was injured during an altercation with a student and she later received workers' compensation benefits for those injuries. As sanctions for their conduct leading to the...
WASHINGTON HOSP. CENTER v. D.C. D.O.E.S. - 6/11/1998
This case involves a challenge to a decision of the Director of the Department of Employment Services ("DOES") regarding a worker's compensation matter. Washington Hospital Center ("WHC") employed an acute care technician who was...
IN RE SPANN - 5/21/1998
In this reciprocal discipline matter from Florida, the Board on Professional Responsibility ("Board") recommends the court impose a two-year suspension on Respondent, with a requirement that he demonstrate fitness to practice as a...
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSP. v. DC DOES - 5/7/1998
Sibley Memorial Hospital (Petitioner) petitions this court for review of the decision of the Director of the Department of Employment Services (DOES), upholding a Compensation Order a DOES Hearing Examiner entered that Petitioner pay...
DAKA - 4/30/1998
Daka, Inc., appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court in favor of James Breiner, a former Daka employee. Alleging age discrimination, Breiner filed suit against Daka under the District of Columbia Human Rights Act, D.C.Code...
IN RE LEE - 3/5/1998
Petitioner, an attorney who was disbarred by statutory mandate for commission of crimes of moral turpitude, D.C. Code § 11-2503(a) (1995), seeks reinstatement pursuant to D.C. Bar R. XI, § 16. Both the hearing committee assigned to...
STONE v. D.C. DEPT. OF EMPL. SERVICES - 2/26/1998
Linda Stone has asked this court to review the denial by the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services ("DOES" or "the agency") of her claim for worker's compensation benefits. We dismiss her petition as untimely.
I....
METROPOLITAN POULTRY v. DC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - 2/5/1998
Petitioners Metropolitan Poultry and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (hereinafter "Metropolitan") seek review of a decision by the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services awarding income and medical benefits to Kenneth...
BELLAMY v. DC DEPT. OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - 12/30/1997
ORDER DISMISSING PETITION FOR REVIEW
Petitioner, Thomas R. Bellamy, filed a claim for workers' compensation pursuant to the District of Columbia Workers' Compensation Act of 1979, D.C. Code §§ 36-301 through -345 (1997). After a...
WAHLNE v. D.C. DEPT. OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - 12/23/1997
Ray Wahlne seeks review of a decision by the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services that his failure to supply timely and sufficiently clear notice of a work-related injury barred his claim for benefits under the...
MILAR ELEVATOR v. DEPT. OF EMPLOYMENT SER. - 12/18/1997
ORDER
This case, involving an employer's petition for review of a workers' compensation order resuming temporary total disability benefits for the intervenor employee, was argued and submitted on April 15, 1997. On August 6, 1997...
WMATA v. DC DEPT. OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - 12/18/1997
This is a petition for review that deals with an issue endemic to workers' compensation statutes — how to deal with the problem of a worker's successive injuries, one incurred on the employer's watch, the other not. More particularly...
WASHINGTON TRAN. AUTH. v. DEPT. OF EMP. SER. - 11/26/1997
Petitioner, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), seeks review of a decision by a hearing examiner of the
Department of Employment Services (DOES) modifying a prior compensation order issued under the District...
DUNCAN v. CHILDREN'S NAT. MEDICAL CENTER - 11/13/1997
Beverly Duncan sued Children's National Medical Center ("CNMC") for wrongful termination based on breach of contract and violation of public policy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. She appeals from the trial court's...
CORNELIOUS v. DC EMPLOYEES' COMP. APP. BD. - 10/30/1997
Appellants assert that the rules regulating attorney's fees for contested worker's compensation claims arising under the Merit Personnel Act, D.C. Code Title 1-624.1 et seq. (1992 Repl. & 1997 Supp.) violate the Due Process Clause...
BROWN v. DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - 9/25/1997
Petitioner, Bobby Brown, seeks review of a decision of the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES) denying him temporary total disability benefits under the Workers' Compensation Act (D.C. Code § 36-301,...
KERRIGAN v. BRITCHES OF GEORGETOWNE - 9/23/1997
Appellant Kerrigan, a former employee of Britches of Georgetowne, Inc. (Britches), brought suit against his former employer asserting causes of action for (1) discrimination, (2) defamation, (3) breach of the covenant of good faith and...
CARL v. CHILDREN'S HOSP. - 9/23/1997
We granted appellant's petition for rehearing en banc to consider her contention that the narrow public policy exception to the employment-at-will doctrine which we first recognized in Adams v. George W. Cochran & Co., 597 A.2d 28,...
COLEMAN v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - 9/18/1997
This appeal from an order of the Superior Court in turn affirming a decision of the City Administrator that the Department of Human Services (DHS) did not discharge appellant unlawfully leaves us unable presently to answer the key...
STOCKARD v. MOSS - 9/4/1997
This appeal represents yet another chapter in an action which has been within this court system in excess of fifteen years. In March of 1982, appellant Bessie Stockard initiated the instant suit for, inter alia, the tort of slander...
TEKLE v. FOOT TRAFFIC - 8/28/1997
Appellant Meklete Tekle filed a complaint in the trial court alleging various intentional torts and negligence against appellees Foot Traffic, Inc., and her coemployee/supervisor and manager of her place of business, Salif Fall. The...
KIDD v. OFFICE OF EMPLOYEE APPEALS - 8/7/1997
Patricia Kidd, an employee of the District of Columbia Department of Administrative Services (DAS), appeals from a Superior Court order affirming a decision of the Office of Employee Appeals (OEA) dismissing without prejudice her claim...
KOLSON v. DEPT. OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - 8/7/1997
On June 20, 1987, Petitioner Michael Kolson sustained injuries as a result of an assault which he claims arose out of and in the course of his employment as a bus driver for Greyhound Lines, Inc. A hearing examiner for the Department...
MCKINLEY v. DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SERVS. - 6/26/1997
On January 10, 1991, petitioner, Robert McKinley, suffered an attack of acute ventricular tachycardia which he contended arose out of and in the course of his employment as an operating engineer at WJLA Television. He claimed that his...
MURRELL v. DIST. OF COLUMBIA - 6/26/1997
Petitioner Marie Murrell, a legal secretary employed by intervenor Shearman & Sterling, suffered a job-related injury in her left hand in the spring of 1994. Thereafter she filed a claim for workers' compensation benefits seeking a...
BLACKMAN v. VISITING NURSES ASS'N - 5/1/1997
In this appeal from the grant of summary judgment against an employee who claimed she was discharged on account of her nationality and race, we hold that the official who made the decision to terminate the employee for violating...
BANOV v. KENNEDY - 5/1/1997
Alan Banov, the petitioner, seeks a writ of mandamus to the trial court directing it to permit Banov to withdraw from a case in which he claimed a conflict of interest as well as various irreconcilable differences with his client....
PRATT v. UNIVERSITY OF THE DIST. OF COL. - 3/27/1997
Appellant Pratt, a former teacher at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), sued for wrongful discharge based upon alleged violation of his First Amendment rights. A jury found liability and awarded him backpay. This appeal...
SISCO v. GSA NAT. CAPITAL FED. CREDIT - 2/6/1997
Appellant (Sisco) was fired from her job when she refused to come to work one snowy day in December 1993. She sued for wrongful termination under what she contends was a contract between herself and appellee (hereafter the Credit...
FRANCIS v. RECYCLING SOLUTIONS - 1/30/1997
Esther H. Francis, in her capacity as Director of the District of Columbia Department of Public Works (DPW), brought suit in the Superior Court to vacate an order of the District of Columbia Contract Appeals Board...
BREDEHOFT v. ALEXANDER - 12/23/1996
In this case we are asked to decide whether an attorney's prefiling inquiry, made before a civil complaint was filed, was sufficient to preclude the imposition of sanctions under Super. Ct. Civ. R. 11; whether a trial court could...
KOH SYSTEMS v. DOES - 9/26/1996
KOH Systems and Royal Insurance Company, petitioners, contend on appeal that the Acting Director ("Director") of the Department of Employment Services ("DOES") erred in overruling the hearing examiner's decision that the applicable...
WALKER v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - 8/29/1996
Before us is the first case that has reached this court requiring us to interpret several provisions of the Health-Care Assistance Reimbursement Act of 1984 ("the Act"). The Act generally deals with the right of the District to...
HIVELY v. DEPT. OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - 8/22/1996
Petitioner/claimant Oran Hively seeks review of the Decision of the Director of the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES) denying his claim for a supplemental allowance under the District of Columbia Workers'...
CHARLES P. YOUNG CO. v. DEPT. OF EMPLOY. - 8/1/1996
Charles P. Young Company ("Young" or "the employer") and its insurance carrier seek review of a decision by the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES) granting a request for workers' compensation filed by...
HARRISON v. CHILDREN'S NAT. MEDICAL CENTER - 6/28/1996
This appeal marks the first time that we have been called upon to interpret the District of Columbia Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA" or "the Act"), D.C. Code §§ 36-1301 et seq. (1993). Appellee, Children's National Medical Center...
BEEGLE v. RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT - 6/27/1996
While working at a restaurant owned by SPL, Inc. (SPL), appellant, Vincenza Vittoria Beegle, sustained severe burns when a co-worker, Michael Trihias, lit a chafing dish which exploded. Ms. Beegle filed a complaint for damages in the...
GRUNLEY CONST. CO. - 6/6/1996
This is a dispute between a contractor, Grunley Construction Company, Inc., and a subcontractor, Conway Corporation, over the proper interpretation of an indemnification agreement in the subcontract. The trial judge denied Grunley's...
DANIEL v. DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT - 3/28/1996
Roy Daniel ("employee") sustained an on-the-job injury to his right ankle in April 1991, while employed by intervenor, Landow & Company ("employer"), whose insurer is intervenor, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Daniel sought...
RENARD v. DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - 3/28/1996
Petitioner, Bernard Renard, seeks review of an order of the Department of Employment Services (DOES) denying his claim for workers' compensation benefits for failure to file the claim within the time period required by statute. The...
Harris v. District of Columbia Office of Worker's Compensation (DOES) - 6/29/1995
SCHWELB, Associate Judge: Eugene M. Harris has asked this court to review a decision of a Hearing and Appeals Examiner of the Department of Employment Services (DOES or the agency) holding that an injury which Harris allegedly suffered...
Atkins v. Industrial Telecommunications Ass'n - 6/5/1995
KING, Associate Judge: This appeal stems from the trial court's dismissal of a three-count complaint filed by John M. Atkins against Industrial Telecommunications Association, Inc. ("ITA"), his former employer, in which he claimed his...
St. Clair v. District of Columbia Dept. of Employment Services - 5/31/1995
PER CURIAM: Petitioner, Ronald St. Clair, seeks review of an order of the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES or the agency) denying his request for reinstatement and back pay based on a claim of retaliatory...
Walker v. District of Columbia - 3/23/1995
TERRY, Associate Judge: The trial court dismissed with prejudice appellant's complaint against the District of Columbia and ordered appellant and her attorney to pay the District's counsel fees. The court found that appellant and her...
American Bldg. Maintenance Co. v. L'Enfant Plaza Properties - 3/16/1995
SCHWELB, Associate Judge: Invoking different provisions in the same indemnification agreement, each of two successful defendants in a "slip-and-fall" lawsuit has sought payment of its counsel fees from its codefendant. Each defendant...
Hoggard v. District of Columbia Public Employee Relations Bd. - 3/2/1995
FARRELL, Associate Judge: Appellant, a former bus driver for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), appeals from an order of the Superior Court denying his petition for review of two decisions of the District of Columbia...
Howard University v. Green - 12/22/1994
KING, Associate Judge: In this civil action for retaliatory termination of employment, appellant Howard University Hospital ("Howard University" or "Hospital"), the former employer of appellee LuEthel Tate Green ("Green"), seeks...
Benefits Communication Corp. v. Klieforth - 6/9/1994
Opinion for the court by Associate Judge KING.
Concurring opinion by Acting Chief Judge FERREN.
KING, Associate Judge: Appellee Laurette C. Klieforth ("employee") filed a complaint against appellants Great West Life...
Matter of Milton - 6/2/1994
PER CURIAM: In its Report and Recommendation, which is attached hereto and made a part hereof, the Board on Professional Responsibility has recommended that respondent John W. Milton, who has been convicted of crimes of moral...
DeShazo v. District of Columbia Dept. of Employment Services - 3/17/1994
FERREN, Associate Judge: Petitioner was injured while working for intervenor, his part-time employer. He applied for workers' compensation. See District of Columbia Workers' Compensation Act, D.C. Code §§ 36-301 to -345 (1993). After a...
Sprint Communications Co. v. Kelly - 3/15/1994
PER CURIAM: These seven consolidated appeals represent the continuation of litigation by long-distance telephone companies challenging the D.C. Gross Receipts Tax Amendment Act of 1987 (the 1987 Act). See Barry v. American Tel. &...
C & P Telephone Co. v. District of Columbia Dept. of Employment Services - 3/15/1994
ROGERS, Chief Judge: Petitioner, C & P Telephone Company, seeks review of a decision of the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services that petitioner must pay intervenor Patricia Robertson's attorney's fees under the...
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