Polomski v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore

How courts have described this case

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

• words in statute to be given \ordinary and common meaning within the context in which they are used\
• “Whether construing either statute, [LE] 9-503 or 9-610, the unmistakable intent of the Legislature since 1914 has been to provide only a single recovery for governmental employees covered by both a pension plan and workers’ compensation.”
• “[T]he Act provides employees suffering from work-related accidental injuries, regardless of fault, with a certain, efficient, and dignified form of compensation. In exchange, employees abandon common law remedies, thereby relieving employers from the vagaries of tort liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).