Opinion ID: 2441608
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Heading: The Taking Process Issues and the Issues Relating to the Order to Vacate the Property and to Pay Rent

Text: Mr. DeSilva raises three issues regarding the taking process; these issues relate to NCRC's declaration of taking, the statutory quick-take procedure, and the Recorder of Deeds. The Rumbers raise challenges to the trial court's order that they vacate the Naylor Road property and pay $1,750.00 in monthly rent. [5] These issues were raised in appellants' interlocutory appeal, No. 09-CV-895. The District filed a motion for summary affirmance of that appeal, arguing that (1) the District properly obtained title to that property under the process set forth in the District's eminent domain statute, D.C.Code § 16-1314 (2001); (2) the trial court did not abuse its discretion by ordering that the Rumbers vacate the Naylor Road property; and (3) the court did not abuse its discretion by ordering the Rumbers to pay $1,750.00 in monthly rent until they actually vacated the property. We granted the District's motion for summary affirmance on August 19, 2010, and subsequently, we denied appellants' motion for rehearing. Hence, the issues raised in that appeal, including those involving the taking process as well as the trial court's order that the Rumbers vacate the Naylor Road property and pay rent, already have been resolved against appellants and may not be considered in this litigation. See Thoubboron v. Ford Motor Co., 809 A.2d 1204, 1215 (D.C.2002) (citing Lynn v. Lynn, 617 A.2d 963, 970 (D.C. 1992) (law of the case doctrine generally forecloses consideration of an issue resolved in a prior appeal)). [6] We now proceed to the issues that are properly before us in this appeal.