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SHAPIRO v. CHAPMAN

No. 770, September Term, 1986.

70 Md. App. 307 (1987)

520 A.2d 1330

STEPHEN SHAPIRO, ET AL., v. BARRY NORMAN CHAPMAN.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

February 11, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Natalie D. McCeney, Baltimore (Jonathan Shapiro of Alexandria, Va., on the brief, for appellants.

No brief or appearance by appellee's counsel.

Argued before BLOOM, KARWACKI and POLLITT, JJ.

BLOOM, Judge.

Stephen Shapiro, Norman Wotring, and John Dignan appeal from judgments of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, which awarded each of them $1.00 compensatory and $1.00 punitive damages in their suit against appellee, Barry Norman Chapman.

Facts

Appellants are all profoundly retarded adults who are involuntarily committed to the Rosewood Center, a state operated facility for the care of the mentally ill. Two of them are also...

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