Legal Opinion
Briscoe v. Prince George's County Health Department
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 20, 1991No. 82, September Term, 1989PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ELDRIDGE, Judge.
The petitioners are clinical social workers employed by the State of Maryland. The principal issues in the case are whether the State violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or Maryland Code (1957, 1988 Repl.Vol., 1990 Cum.Supp.), Art. 64A, § 27, 1 by paying the petitioners less than psychiatric nurses employed at the same facilities.
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The original claimants were twelve clinical social workers employed by the State of Maryland at Community Mental Health Centers administered by the Prince George’s County Health Department. These claimants filed an…
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