Mayor of Ocean City v. Johnson

WILNER, Judge.

On April 24, 1979, Lieutenant Halton Johnson, appellee, was dismissed from the Ocean City police force. Nearly five years after the event, we are asked to determine whether the Circuit Court for Worcester County erred when it concluded that the dismissal was invalid and ordered the municipal authorities to reinstate Lt. Johnson. The case has a somewhat tortuous procedural history, and there are a number of collateral issues raised, but the crux of the matter is whether the regulations that Lt. Johnson was found to have violated were validly adopted.

That issue, in turn, depends…