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Live tweets — over several days — with updates from the courtroom during jury selection in the trial of Ingmar Guandique, accused of killing D.C. intern Chandra Levy.
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By Emily Babay
It’s a classic David and Goliath story: A white-shoe law firm staffed with hundreds of D.C.’s most-powerful lawyers has moved to shutter a hamburger eatery on the grounds that the lawyers didn’t like the aroma of cooking meat wafting into their offices.
So far, Goliath is winning.
D.C. Superior Court Judge John Mott ordered the restaurant, Rogue States on Connecticut Avenue near Dupont Circle, to shut down its grill this week. Neighboring law firm Steptoe & Johnson had sued the restaurant, saying the firm’s employees suffered nausea, watery eyes and headaches from Rogue States’ fumes.
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