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DOE v. MASKELL

No. 102, Sept. Term, 1995.

679 A.2d 1087 (1996)

342 Md. 684

Jane DOE et al. v. A. Joseph MASKELL et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied August 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip G. Dantes (Beverly A. Wallace, Bregel, Kerr, Davis & Dantes), James G. Maggio (Maggio & Wyman, all on brief), Towson, for Petitioners.

Kevin M. Murphy (Matthew Cuccias, on brief), Washington, DC, J. Michael Lehane, Shirlie Norris Lake (Mark Anthony Kozlowski, on brief), Baltimore, Andrew Janquitto (Mudd, Harrison & Burch, on brief), Towson, for Respondents.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.

KARWACKI, Judge.

In this case we are asked to decide whether the "discovery rule" applicable to the time-bar of the statute of limitations on civil actions at law found in Maryland Code (1974, 1995 Repl. Vol.), § 5-101 of the Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article,1 applies to cases of allegedly "repressed" and "recovered" memories. We hold that repression of memories is an insufficient...

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