MEADE v. SHANGRI-LA PARTNERSHIP

No. 128, September Term, 2008.

36 A.3d 483 (2012)

424 Md. 476

Lisa MEADE v. SHANGRI-LA PARTNERSHIP and a Business t/a & d/b/a Children's Manor Montessori School.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 26, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence S. Kaye (The Kaye Law Firm of Gaithersburg, MD; Julie Glass Martin-Knob , Rockville, MD; and Michael J. Silverman of Law Office of Michael J. Silverman, P.A., Columbia, MD), all on brief, for petitioner.

Pamela Dement-Carpenter (Corbin, Schaffer & Aviles, Chtd., Severna Park, MD; Pradip K. Ghosh (pro se)), all on brief, for respondent.

C. Matthew Hill, Esq. , Murnaghan Appellate Advocacy Fellow, Baltimore, MD, Jonathan C. Puth, Esq. , Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae brief of Public Justice Center, Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, Maryland Disability Law Center, Maryland Employment Lawyers Association, Maryland Nurses Coalition, Inc., Civil Justice, Inc., and Maryland Nurses Association, for Petitioner.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned) and IRMA S. RAKER (Retired, Specially Assigned).


JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned), J.

This is a civil action, authorized by a State statute and by the Howard County Code, in which the plaintiff seeks damages for a school's alleged discrimination because of the plaintiff's handicap. We issued a writ of certiorari in the case to consider whether discrimination because of a "handicap," within the meaning of the Maryland statutory provisions, should be construed...

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