Dearden v. Liberty Medical Center, Inc.

WILNER, Judge.

Linda Dearden believes that she has a grievance against her employer. There is available to her, as part of her employment contract, a specific, multi-step grievance procedure which she has declined to use on the ground that it would be “fruitless.” Instead, she sued the employer in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, seeking a declaratory judgment that the employer, by its conduct, breached her employment contract, and $50,000 in damages. The court dismissed her complaint, on the employer’s motion, for failure to exhaust her contractual remedies. We shall affirm.

Ms. Dearden…