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DOE v. ROE

No. 95 September Term, 2010.

20 A.3d 787 (2011)

419 Md. 687

James DOE v. Mary ROE.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 23, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Creed (Timothy F. Maloney and Levi S. Zaslow of Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, P.A., Greenbelt, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Anton L. Iamele (Iamele & Iamele, LLP, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, ADKINS and BARBERA, JJ.

HARRELL, J.

"[Jeremy] Bentham stated the case against retroactivity most succinctly when he likened it to `dog law.' He was referring to the age-old method of training dogs by waiting until they do what they are to be forbidden to do, and then kicking them." NORMAN J. SINGER, SUTHERLAND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION § 41.02 (5th ed. 1992) [hereinafter SUTHERLAND]; see JEREMY BENTHAM, Truth versus Ashhurst, in 5 THE WORKS OF JEREMY BENTHAM 235 (1863...

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