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BOWDEN v. CALDOR

No. 81, Sept. Term, 1996.

710 A.2d 267 (1998)

350 Md. 4

Samuel David BOWDEN v. CALDOR, INC. et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan B. Rabineau (A. Samuel Peregoff, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Patricia M. Thornton (McCarthy, Bacon & Costello, L.L.P., on brief), Lanham, for Respondents.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, and RAKER, JJ., and ROBERT C. MURPHY, Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This case presents several important issues concerning court review of jurors' punitive damages awards in tort actions.

I.

In March 1988, the petitioner Samuel David Bowden, an African-American then sixteen years of age, was hired by the respondent Caldor, a regional retail department store chain, to work as a customer service representative in...

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