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Redressability
Plaintiffs’ maintain that the Directorate has usurped the decision-making role from the Boulé (legislative body) and centralized control within the Directorate. Plaintiffs (and Defendants) go to great lengths to explain the long history of the sororityand the evolution of its governing structure.
Notwithstanding the impracticality of the Court resolving the internal power struggle of a large, private, voluntary organization, “courts ordinarily will not interfere with the management and internal affairs of a voluntary association.” Jolevare v. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., 521 F.Supp. 2d 1, 20 (2007) (internal citations omitted), it is incumbent upon a party seeking this type of relief to demonstrate the existence of facts to justify this type of judicial interference.
Id. In Levant v. Whitley, our Court of Appeals assumed, without deciding, “that interventionwould be appropriate when an organization failed to follow its own rules.” 755 A.2d 1036, 1044 (D.C. 2000). The Levant Court ultimately adjudicated whether a private, voluntary, membership organization had followed its constitution and by laws when it removed Plaintiff/former member. Levant, however, may be distinguished because thePlaintiff in that case brought suit, in part, as a derivative action.
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| File Date | 06/20/2009 | Case Status | Closed | Case Status Date | 06/20/2009 |
| Case Disposition | Dismissed by Court | Case Disposition Date | 02/01/201 |
Docket Entries
| Date | Text | |
| 02/01/2010 | Dismissed by Court | |
| 02/01/2010 | Event Resulted: The following event: Status Hearing scheduled for 02/19/2010 at 11:00 am has been resulted as follows: Result: Event Cancelled Judge: BARTNOFF, JUDITH Location: Courtroom 100 | |
| 02/01/2010 | OMNIBUS Order Sua Sponte Entered on Docket. Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint GRANTED; Counts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX and X DISMISSED; Motion to Compel DENIED AS MOOT. Signed, docketed and eserved 2/1/10. | |
| 01/14/2010 | Proof of Service to Order Granting Defendants’ Motion to Extend All Discovery Deadlines Including Deadlines to Respond to Pending Discovery Requests. Signed by Judge Judith Bartnoff on January 14, 2010. Submitted. 01/14/2010 14:30. ars. | |
| 01/14/2010 | Order Granting Defendants’ Motion to Extend All Discovery Deadlines Including Deadlines to Respond to Pending Discovery Requests. Signed by Judge Judith Bartnoff on January 14, 2010. Submitted. 01/14/2010 14:30. ars. | |
| 01/14/2010 | Event Scheduled Event: Status Hearing Date: 02/19/2010 Time: 11:00 am Judge: BARTNOFF, JUDITH Location: Courtroom 100 | |
| 01/14/2010 | Notice of Hearing Mailed Next Business Day Notice Of Hearing Sent on: 01/14/2010 14:23:50 | |
| 01/14/2010 | Order Granting Defendants’ Motion to Extend All Discovery Deadlines Including Deadlines to Respond to Pending Discovery Requests Entered on the Docket. Ordered that the discovery deadlines in the Scheduling Order entered September 18, 2009, including the deadlines for responses to any pending discovery requests, be and they hereby are extended to a further date to be set after a ruling is issued on the defendants’ pending motion to dismiss, if this case is not dismissed, and it is FURTHER ORDERED that a status hearing will be held on February 19, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. in Courtroom 100. Order signed, docketed and eServed |
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