PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY v. BERETTA

No. 110, Sept. Term, 1998.

747 A.2d 647 (2000)

358 Md. 166

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Maryland v. BERETTA U.S.A. CORP.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 9, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shalisha Hines Ivy, Associate County Atty. (Barbara L. Holtz, Acting County Atty., on brief), Upper Marlboro, for petitioner.

Jerrold A. Thrope (Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander, LLC, on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Dwight H. Sullivan, Counsel, ACLU of Maryland/ACLU of the Nat. Capital Area, Arthur B. Spitzer, Co-Counsel, ACLU of the Nat. Capital Area, Glendora C. Hughes, General Counsel and Lee D. Hoshall, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Maryland Com'n on Human Relations, amicus curiae for petitioner.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL and ROBERT L. KARWACKI (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This case presents important questions concerning a charter county's authority to enact a statute which provides that a county administrative agency, upon a finding of employment discrimination, may, in addition to other relief, award money damages "for humiliation and embarrassment" up to $100,000.00. Unfortunately, we shall not be able to reach those issues because the judgment of the Circuit Court for...

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