NAACP ASS'N v. GOLDING

No. 51, Sept. Term 1995.

679 A.2d 554 (1996)

342 Md. 663

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE et al. v. Steven GOLDING et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 26, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald M. Falk (Gary A. Winters, Mayer, Brown & Platt, on brief), Washington, DC (Dennis Courtland Hayes, Gen. Counsel, Baltimore, of counsel), for appellants.

Lisa R. Hodges, P.A., Baltimore (Warren A. Brown, P.A., Baltimore, of counsel), for appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


RAKER, Judge.

The issue we must decide in this case is what role the courts should play in resolving a disagreement between a voluntary membership organization and its members. Specifically, we must determine whether the courts should intervene to interpret provisions of a voluntary organization's membership agreement governing members' eligibility to participate in the election of officers. We shall hold that under the circumstances of this case, the trial court...

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