GILL v. RIPLEY

No. 36, Sept. Term, 1998.

724 A.2d 88 (1999)

352 Md. 754

Joyce E. GILL, et al. v. Jeanne RIPLEY, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 16, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Pamela Waldron, Bel Air, for appellants.

Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, Margaret Witherup Tindall, Staff Attorney, all on brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER, WILNER and CATHELL, JJ.


WILNER, Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether prosecutors and their support staff enjoy absolute immunity from civil liability for conduct committed in the prosecution of a paternity action under Maryland Code, title 5, subtitle 10 of the Family Law Article. After filing such an action, the appellee prosecutors dismissed it, with prejudice, over the objection of the child's mother. The mother, appellant Joyce Gill, later...

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