JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY v. RITTER

No. 259, Sept. Term, 1996.

689 A.2d 91 (1996)

114 Md. App. 77

The JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY v. Samuel B. RITTER, et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied in Part, March 17, 1997.

Reconsideration Granted in Part, March 17, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. Finnerty, Jr. (William L. Reynolds, Tracey Gann Turner, Piper & Marbury L.L.P., Estelle A. Fishbein and Frederick G. Savage, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Marvin Ellin and Michael P. Smith (Ellin & Baker, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Martin Michaelson, Kathryn W. Bradley and Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., Washington, DC (Sheldon E. Steinbach, General Counsel, of counsel), for amici curiae American Council on Educ., Georgetown University, Goucher College, New York University, St. Johns University, Tufts University, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh and Washington College.

Argued before WILNER, C.J., MOYLAN, J., and THEODORE G. BLOOM, Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.


WILNER, Chief Judge.

On October 25, 1994, appellees, Samuel Ritter and Rebecca Snider, sued appellant, Johns Hopkins University, for breach of contract. They claimed that Hopkins had agreed to employ them as full professors of pediatric cardiology at the Hopkins Medical School, with tenure, effective January 1, 1994, and that it breached that agreement by discharging them as of December 31, 1994. Hopkins defended on the ground that the employment contract did not...

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