GROUP HOSP. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ETC.

No. 9623.

380 A.2d 170 (1977)

GROUP HOSPITALIZATION, INC., Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 10, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Steele and Jacqueline Saue, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., at the time of argument and when the brief was filed, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., when the brief was filed, Louis P. Robbins, Principal Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for respondent.

Before KERN and HARRIS, Associate Judges, and REILLY, Chief Judge, Retired.


HARRIS, Associate Judge:

The District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights (the Commission) found that the maternity leave policies of petitioner Group Hospitalization, Inc., (GHI) constituted discrimination on the basis of sex, in violation of former Article 47, § 4(a) of the D.C. Police Regulations. Certain sanctions also were ordered by the Commission. We conclude that the Commission erred, and vacate its Final...

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