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ABBOTT v. ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING BD.

No. 1146, September Term, 1975.

33 Md. App. 681 (1976)

366 A.2d 756

DOUGLAS L. ABBOTT v. ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING BOARD, PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 30, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl G. Feissner and Robert H. Levan, with whom were Feissner, Garrity, Levan & Schimel on the brief, for appellant.

Ellis J. Koch, Deputy County Attorney for Prince George's County, and David E. Grover, Associate County Attorney, with whom was James C. Chapin, County Attorney, on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before MARVIN H. SMITH and JOHN C. ELDRIDGE, Associate Judges of the Court of Appeals, and J. HAROLD GRADY, Associate Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, all specially assigned.

ELDRIDGE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We are presented with the question of whether the provisions of the Prince George's County Merit System Ordinance and the County Charter governing employee appeals from administrative disciplinary actions are, when applied to cases involving police officers, preempted by the statewide public general law known as the "Law-Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights."

The "Law-Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights" was...

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