Doe v. Catholic Relief Services

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• confirming that the Maryland General Assembly, “in 2001 and 2014, updated MFEPA to protect against first sexual orientation and then gender identity discrimination”
• “[W]here the MFEPA materially departs from the language of Title VII, the MFEPA is not read in lockstep with the federal statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Westminster Management v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2024-03-25· cited 38×
• Abell Found. v. Baltimore Dev. Corp.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-08-02
• Adelakun v. Adelakun
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-09-26
• GEICO v. MAO-MSO Recovery II
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-07-11
• Royall v. Dicks
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2026-04-03

Cites

50 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-01· cited 3,836×
• Desert Palace, Inc. v. Costa
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-09· cited 1,575×
• Lawrence v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 1,452×
• Bostock v. Clayton County
  Supreme Court· 2020-06-15· cited 1,289×
• Obergefell v. Hodges
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-26· cited 955×
• Bowers v. Hardwick
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-11· cited 953×
• Kedroff v. Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America
  Supreme Court· 1952-11-24· cited 689×
• Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-24· cited 549×
• Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  Supreme Court· 2012-01-11· cited 504×
• Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-20· cited 367×
• Lockshin v. Semsker
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-01-12· cited 244×
• Haas v. Lockheed Martin Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-01-09· cited 143×
• Makovi v. Sherwin-Williams Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-07-26· cited 133×
• Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru
  Supreme Court· 2020-07-08· cited 128×
• Molesworth v. Brandon
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-03-05· cited 120×
• Mayor of Oakland v. Mayor of Mountain Lake Park
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-04-18· cited 113×
• Arthur Wrightson v. Pizza Hut of America, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-11-15· cited 108×
• Koshko v. Haining
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-01-12· cited 107×
• Wheeling v. Selene Finance
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-04-30· cited 92×
• Chappell v. Southern Maryland Hospital, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-09-05· cited 78×