CHAMBER OF COMMERCE v. BARUFALDI

No. 77, Sept. Term, 2012.

75 A.3d 952 (2013)

434 Md. 381

OCEAN CITY, MD., CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INC. v. Daniel J. BARUFALDI.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 24, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce F. Bright (Ayres, Jenkins, Gordy & Almand, P.A., Ocean City, MD), on brief, for petitioner.

Philip B. Zipin (The Zipin Law Firm, LLC, Silver Spring, MD; Julie Martin-Korb , Rockville, MD), on brief, for respondent.

Jean Zachariasiewicz, Esq. , Thomas Davies, Esq. , Public Justice Center, Baltimore, MD, John R. Ates, Esq. , Alexandria VA, for amici curiae brief of the Public Justice Center, American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, Maryland Employment Lawyers Association, Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, National Federation of the Blind of Maryland, D.C. Employment Justice Center, and Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

Argued before BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD, and BELL, JJ.


McDONALD J.

The vast majority of states, including Maryland, follow what is known as the "American Rule" on the allocation of the costs of litigation — that is, each party bears its own costs, including attorneys' fees, regardless of the outcome.1 This is in contrast to the practice in Great Britain — and most other legal systems in the Western world — which follows what is...

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