"I keep trying to break him of it, but, you know, he's working his way through Columbia Law."

He became a professor of law at Columbia Law in 1923.

The firm wanted to be sure he hadn't got to Columbia Law simply because he was black.

Some questioned whether they had to comply with the District of Columbia laws.

District of Columbia law prohibited him as a black man from testifying against whites and, absent his testimony, the men went free.

The practice could amount to fraud, a felony under Federal and District of Columbia law.

(District of Columbia law required sprinklers in very few buildings.)

I had celebrated with him when he got his acceptance to Princeton and then Columbia Law.

District of Columbia laws prohibit demonstrations within 500 feet of a foreign embassy, mission or ambassador's home.

Christie is most noteworthy for a 2005 court challenge of a British Columbia law that extended provincial sales tax to legal services.