By lawyersksflaw | Published May 26, 2016 | Posted in Court Cases | Tagged Tags: Appellate Decisions, Civil Protection Order, Court Cases, Court of Appeals, D.C. Lawyers, Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence Unit | Leave a comment
Fleet v. Fleet, 14-FM-391
The District of Columbia has a rich body of case law regarding domestic violence and Civil Protection Orders, with which any practitioner in the Domestic Violence Unit must be thoroughly familiar. The Court issued another such decision on May 5, 2016, in the matter of Edmund Fleet v. Ericka Fleet – an appeal from cross-petitions Read More
Read MoreRe: Victim Blaming
By now, we are all familiar with the various versions of tips to prevent rape, which change the focus from actions of victims to actions of rapists. If you have not seen one, they are available here, here and many other places. These shed light on a common cultural bias known as victim-blaming. In representing victims of Read More
Read MoreJ.J. v. B.A., No 11-FM-1309 (D.C. Ct. App. April 18, 2013)
The ever-expanding reach of the Domestic Violence Unit made a striking, but subtle, appearance in a recent opinion from the D.C. Court of Appeals – J.J. v. B.A., No 11-FM-1309 (D.C. Ct. App. April 18, 2013). The case’s main holding is interesting in and of itself – the parties had entered into a Consent Custody Read More
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