It is the purpose of this chapter to create a Boxing and Wrestling Commission for the District of Columbia with the authority to promulgate rules and regulations, to promote the District of Columbia as a location for boxing, wrestling and martial arts events, and to regulate boxing and wrestling within its jurisdiction.
D.C. Code § 3-601
Purpose
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Atchison v. District of Columbia (1991)
Most recently applied in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. MELVERN REID (December 2014)
Oct. 8, 1975, D.C
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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