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WIDGEON v. EASTERN SHORE HOSP. CENTER

Misc. No. 5, September Term, 1983.

300 Md. 520 (1984)

479 A.2d 921

JOHN GILBERT WIDGEON v. EASTERN SHORE HOSPITAL CENTER ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 21, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Ayers Wimbrow, III, Ocean City, for appellant.

Andrew Lapayowker, Baltimore (Donald L. DeVries, Jr., Daniel J. Moore and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee Ronald M. Smeets, M.D.

Judith K. Sykes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., and Daniel J. O'Brien, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on the brief), for appellees Eastern Shore Hosp. Center, Charles R. Buck, Jr., H.M. English, M.D., and E.D. DeLamater, M.D., other appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

In this case we are asked to decide whether a private action for damages exists for violations of Articles 24 and 26 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights. The question was certified to us by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, Maryland Code (1974, 1984 Repl. Vol.), §§ 12-601 through 12-609 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article.

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