In Pernell v. Southall Realty, 416 U.S. 363 (1974), in discussing Block v. Hirsh, 256 U.S. 135 (1921), and NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., 301 U.S. 1 (1937), the Court stated: "Block v. Hirsh merely stands for the principle that the Seventh Amendment is generally inapplicable in administrative proceedings, where jury trials would be incompatible with the whole concept of administrative adjudication. . . . We may assume that the Seventh Amendment would not be a bar to a congressional effort to entrust landlord-tenant disputes, including those over the right to possession, to an administrative agency. Congress has not seen fit to do so, however, but rather has provided that actions under 16-1501 be brought as ordinary civil actions in the District of Columbia's court of general jurisdiction. Where it has done so, and where the action involves rights and remedies recognized at common law, it must preserve to parties their right to a jury trial." 416 U.S., at 383.