BALTIMORE CNTY. v. QUINLAN

No. 50, Sept. Term, 2018

215 A.3d 282 (2019)

466 Md. 1

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Maryland, v. Michael QUINLAN.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 26, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Suzanne T. Berger , Asst. County Atty. ( Suja M. Varghese , Asst. County Atty. and Michael E. Field , County Attorney, Towson, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Argued by P. Matthew Darby (Berrnan, Sobin, Gross, Feldman & Darby LLP, Lutherville, MD; Jeffrey W. Stickle , Bennan, Sobin, Gross, Feldman & Darby LLP, Gaithersburg, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Amici Curiae Brief for Montgomery, Anne Arundel , Haword and Prince George'S Counties, Prince George's County Board of Education and City of Cumberland In Support of Petitioner: Marc P. Hansen , County Attorney, John P. Markovs , Deputy County Attorney, Edward B. Lattner , Chief, Division of Government Operations, Wendy B. Karpel , Associate County Attorney, 101 Monroe Street, Third Floor, Rockville, MD 20850-2058, Gregory J. Swain , Acting County Attorney, Anne Amndel County Office of Law, 2660 Riva Road, 4th Floor, Annapolis, MD 21401, Ileen M. Ticer, Esquire , Law Office of Ileen Ticer, 200 International Circle, Suite 4100, Hunt Valley, MD 21030, Melissa Lambert , County Attorney, Harford County Law Department, 220 South Main Street, Bel Air, MD 21014, Robert W. Burton , Associate General Counsel, Board of Education of Prince George's County, 14201 School Lane, Room 201F, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, Rhonda L. Weaver , County Attorney, Andrew L. Murray , Deputy County Attorney, Prince George's County Office of Law, 1301 McCormick Drive, Suite 4100, Largo, MD 20774.

Amici Curiae Brief for Maryland Association for Justice in Support of Respondent.: James K. MacAlister, Esquire , Cohen, Snyder, Eisenberg & Katzenberg, PA, 347 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-4327, Dayna Kipnis, Esquire , Kahn, Smith & Collins, PA, 201 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.

Amici Curiae Brief for Professional Fire Fighters of Maryland in Support of Respondent: Ari N. Lark, Esquire , Berman, Sobin, Gross, Feldman & Darby LLP, 1301 York Road, Suite 600, Lutherville, MD 21093.

Argued before: Barbera, C.J. Greene, McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Getty, Sally D., Adkins (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned) JJ.


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