IN RE ADOPTION NO. 147

No. 59, September Term, 1988.

314 Md. 719 (1989)

552 A.2d 1299

IN RE ADOPTION NO. 147 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 10, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark R. Thompson (Boyland & Thompson, on brief), Silver Spring, for appellant.

Nancy B. Shuger, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, amicus curiae, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.


McAULIFFE, Judge.

We granted certiorari in this case to consider questions relating to the right of an adopted person to obtain information from the sealed file of her adoption case. Because our inspection of the case file reveals that it does not pertain to petitioner's adoption, we do not reach all of the important questions involved.

Petitioner, who is a married adult with four children, filed a "Petition for Access to Information" in Adoption Equity No...

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