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GRIFFITH v. WAKEFIELD

No. 159, September Term, 1982.

298 Md. 381 (1984)

470 A.2d 345

EDWARD A. GRIFFITH ET UX. v. DONALD K. WAKEFIELD ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for Reconsideration Denied March 5, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Bruce Alderman and Eugene H. Cunningham, Jr., Towson (Robert J. Aumiller and White, Mindel, Clarke & Hill, Towson, on the brief), for appellants.

George H. Cohen, Jeffrey Gibbs, David M. Silberman, and Bredhoff and Kaiser, Washington, D.C., Daniel F. Goldstein, Baltimore, amicus curiae for appellees The Md. State Fraternal Order of Police, The Md. State and District of Columbia Professional Fire Fighters Ass'n.

Gordon S. Berman, Baltimore (Jerome Blum, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee, Baltimore County Firefighters Ass'n, Local 1311.

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

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The controversy in this case is over the validity of a Baltimore County charter amendment requiring resolution of labor disputes, involving county-employed fire fighters, through binding arbitration. The specific issue before us is whether the charter amendment constitutes proper "charter material" under Art. XI-A of the Maryland Constitution as construed in Cheeks v. Cedlair Corp., 287 Md. 595,

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