From Remus Enterprises 1, LLC v. Breece, decided Thursday by the D.C. Court of Appeals (Judge Shanker, joined by Judges Easterly and Ruiz):
Punctuation matters. At the heart of this case is the placement of a comma. Appellant Remus Enterprises 1, LLC ("Remus 2023") sued appellee Quinn Breece in Superior Court asserting tort claims arising out of Remus 2023's alleged ownership of, and desire to sell, a parcel of property located at 3308 16th Street, NE, in Washington, D.C. But a consent judgment in another case established that a different entity with a name containing all the same words and letters but a differently placed comma—Remus Enterprises, 1 LLC ("Remus 2018")—was the real owner of the property. Because Remus 2023 does not have standing to sue based on a different entity's property interest, we conclude that the trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over the case, and we affirm the trial court's dismissal of Remus 2023's complaint, although on grounds different from those relied on by the trial court….
