McCullough v. Wittner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services had implied authority to make monetary awards to aggrieved inmates
• holding that the Inmate Grievance Commission had authority to make monetary awards to an inmate as long as funds are appropriated or otherwise properly available, despite the fact that this particular remedy was not statutorily prescribed
• explaining that where an individual has both an administrative and a judicial remedy and the agency has primary jurisdiction over the matter, the trial court may retain jurisdiction during the pendency of the administrative proceedings
• “The interpretation of a statute by those officials charged with administering the statute is ... entitled to weight”
• ‘The interpretation of a statute by those officials charged with administering the statute is ... entitled to weight’
• Md.Ann.Code (1988 Cum.Supp.), Art. 41, § 4-102.1(1) expressly provides that inmate is not entitled to file grievance in court until administrative remedy is exhausted

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