Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Dackman Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided October 24, 2011No. 131, September Term, 2008PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEldridge, J.
The principal issues in this case concern the constitutionality of the provisions in the Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Act which grant to the owners of certain rental properties, under specified conditions, immunity from personal injury suits based upon a child’s or a pregnant woman’s ingestion of lead. We shall hold that the statute’s provisions granting immunity violate Article 19 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights and are, therefore, invalid.
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The Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Act was enacted by Ch. 114 of the Acts of 1994 and is, for the most part, codified in Maryland Code…
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