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DE BLEECKER v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY

[No. 51, September Term, 1981.]

292 Md. 498 (1982)

438 A.2d 1348

MICHAEL P. DE BLEECKER v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Leah Meltzer, with whom was Gary Howard Simpson on the brief, for appellant.

Amicus curiae brief of The Maryland Lawyers Council filed. Christopher Brown and Michael Millemann on the brief.

Amicus curiae brief of State of Maryland filed. Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, and Diana G. Motz, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert A. Zarnoch, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief.

Hugh E. Donovan, with whom were Donovan & Nash on the brief, for appellees Montgomery County, Blake and Sander and by Craig S. Rice, with whom were McInerney, Layne & Rice on the brief, for appellees Montgomery County Board of Education and Norma C. Day.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.

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

The principal issue in this case is whether the trial court, in granting directed verdict motions against Rev. Michael P. De Bleecker, properly concluded as a matter of law that he had not been discharged from his public employment as a teacher in Montgomery County in violation of his constitutionally protected right of free speech under the first amendment to the United States Constitution.

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