In re ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP NO. CCJ14746 in the Circuit Court for Washington County.
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September 13, 2000.
September 13, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Sherrie B. Glasser, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.
Carol Ann Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.
Brief of the National Ass'n of Social Workers and the Maryland Chapter of the National Ass'n of Social Workers, the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work, the Clinical Social Work Federation and its Member Maryland and Greater Washington Societies, the Family Therapy Practice Academy of the Clinical Social Work Federation, the Clinical Social Work Guild and the National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, Inc., and Clinical Social Work Guild No. 49 of the Office and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, as Amici Curiae filed on behalf of the Respondent.
Carolyn Jacobs, Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley, LLP, Baltimore, Carolyn I. Polowy, National Ass'n of Social Workers, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, the National Ass'n of Social Workers and the Maryland Chapter of the National Ass'n of Social Workers.
Peter M. Brody, Ropes & Gray, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, American Bd. of Examiners in Clinical Social Work.
Howard N. Feldman, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae, the Clinical Social Work Federation, the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc., the Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc., the Family Therapy Practice Academy of the Clinical Social Work Federation, the Clinical Social Work Guild and The National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, Inc., and Clinical Social Work Guild No. 49 of the Office and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC.
Melvin S. Schwarzwald, Schwarzwald, Rock & McNair, Cleveland, OH, for Clinical Social Work Guild No. 49 of the Office and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC.
Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL and HARRELL, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
RAKER, Judge.
The question presented in this case is whether the Circuit Court for Washington County erred in permitting a licensed clinical social worker to testify as an expert witness and to provide diagnostic expert testimony. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Circuit Court, holding that the trial court neither erred nor abused its discretion in receiving the opinions. We shall affirm.
Petitioner Shannon P. is the mother of a minor...
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