COMM'N ON HUMAN REL. v. GREENBELT HOMES

No. 8 (Adv.) September Term, 1983.

300 Md. 75 (1984)

475 A.2d 1192

MARYLAND COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS v. GREENBELT HOMES, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Risselle Rosenthal Fleisher, Gen. Counsel, Baltimore (Glendora C. Hughes, Asst. Gen. Counsel and Philip L. Marcus, Associate Gen. Counsel, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

Lester B. Seidel, Washington, D.C. (James F. Perna and Krooth & Altman, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.


COLE, Judge.

In this case we must determine whether enforcing a housing cooperative regulation that operates to prohibit a female resident from having an unrelated adult male reside with her constitutes discrimination on the basis of "marital status" proscribed by Maryland Code (1957, 1979 Repl.Vol.), Art. 49B, § 20. The relevant facts are not disputed.

Greenbelt Homes, Inc. (Greenbelt) is a Maryland corporation operating a housing cooperative in Greenbelt...

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