Section 1639

Citation: Section 1639
Parent Document: Tippett v. Daly, 10 A.3d 1123 (2010)
Jurisdiction: DC (municipal)
Effective Date: 2010-12-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2551230/tippett-v-daly/ ↗

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Nor did the Council’s action in 2009 provide meaningful assistance in discerning the intent of the predecessor Councils which enacted TOPA and later added the thirty-day deadline. In the first place, the Council did not assert that it was clarifying what the earlier legislators meant.11 Secondly, “there is serious debate and doubt as to when, if ever, a later legislature has a role in construing what an earlier legislature intended.” United States Parole Comm’n v. Noble, 693 A.2d 1084, 1103 (D.C.1997), majority opinion adopted on rehearing en banc, 711 A.2d 85, 86 (D.C.1998) (en banc). “[E]ven if *1132later Councils approve [a certain interpretation of a statute], that is not necessarily valid evidence of the intent of the Council that enacted it.” Id.

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