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MOLESWORTH v. BRANDON

No. 83, Sept. Term, 1995.

672 A.2d 608 (1996)

341 Md. 621

Linda C. MOLESWORTH v. Randall BRANDON et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Hilliard Legum (Alan Hilliard Legum, P.A., on brief), Annapolis, for petitioner.

E. Alexander Adams (Betty Smith Adams, Adams & Adams, on brief), Ellicott City, for respondent.

Glendora C. Hughes, General Counsel; Jonathan P. Sills, Assistant General Counsel, State of Maryland Commission on Human Relations, Baltimore, for amicus curiae.

Jay R. Fries, Joan E. Book, Kruchko & Fries, Baltimore, for amici curiae The Maryland Chamber of Commerce and The National Federation of Independent Business.

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

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The issues in this case are first, whether a common law cause of action for wrongful discharge of a female employee based on sex discrimination lies against an employer with less than fifteen employees and second, whether, in such a case, the court must instruct the jury that where the same person hires and fires the employee, there is an inference that the discharge was not due to the employee's sex...

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