Legal Opinion
Johns Hopkins University v. Ritter
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 17, 1997No. 259, Sept. Term, 1996PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILNER, Chief Judge.
On October 25, 1994, appellees, Samuel Ritter and Rebecca Snider, sued appellant, Johns Hopkins University, for breach of contract. They claimed that Hopkins had agreed to employ them as full professors of pediatric cardiology at the Hopkins Medical School, with tenure, effective January 1, 1994, and that it breached that agreement by discharging them as of December 31,1994. Hopkins defended on the ground that the employment contract did not include a commitment to a full professorship and tenure and that, even if such a commitment had been made, the person negotiating the…
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