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POPE v. SECRETARY OF PERSONNEL

No. 86, September Term, 1980.

46 Md. App. 716 (1980)

420 A.2d 1017

GLORIA A. POPE v. SECRETARY OF PERSONNEL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 16, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Levin for appellant.

James F. Truitt, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MOORE, LOWE and WILNER, JJ.

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

— the trend —

The word "shall" has probably occupied the erudition of the Court of Appeals more than any other single term. In recent years the Court of Appeals has with increasing rigidity applied the principle of statutory construction that use of the word "shall" is presumed mandatory. Hirsch v. Dept. of Nat'l Resources, 288 Md. 95 (1980); In Re: James...

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