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KEENEY v. PRINCE GEORGE'S CTY. DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVS.

No. 124, September Term, 1979.

43 Md. App. 688 (1979)

406 A.2d 955

ROBERT L. KEENEY v. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by Alan J. Goldstein and Horowitz, Oneglia, Goldstein, Foran & Parker, P.A. for appellant.

Submitted by Robert B. Ostrom, County Attorney for Prince George's County, Michael O. Connaughton, Deputy County Attorney, and Karel C. Petraitis, Associate County Attorney, for appellee and Donna C. Aldridge for children.

The cause was submitted on briefs to GILBERT, C.J., and MOORE and MELVIN, JJ.

GILBERT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

"If ever we are justified in reading a statute, not narrowly as through a keyhole, but in the broad light of the evils it aimed at and the good it hoped for, it is here." United States ex rel Marcus v. Hess, 317 U.S. 537, 557, 63 S.Ct. 379, 391, 87 L.Ed. 443, 456 (1943).

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