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HANSFORD v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 150, September Term, 1990.

329 Md. 112 (1993)

617 A.2d 1057

THOMAS T. HANSFORD, SR. ET AL. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 14, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary M. Sidell (Leslie G. Fein, Crowley, Hoge & Fein, P.C., all on brief), for petitioners.

Lutz Alexander Prager, Asst. Deputy Corp. Counsel (John Payton, Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, all on brief), for respondents.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, JJ. and J. WILLIAM HINKEL, Administrative Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of Maryland (Specially Assigned).

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The principal issues in this case concern the authority of a Maryland court to exercise jurisdiction in a tort suit against the District of Columbia, where the District's allegedly tortious conduct occurred on a federal enclave within the State of Maryland, over which enclave the State had ceded "exclusive jurisdiction" to the United States.

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