United States Fourth Circuit

In case involving a county zoning ordinance rendering operation of a methadone treatment clinic at its chosen location unlawful, judgment for plaintiff clinic is reversed in part where the district court erred in holding, as a matter of law, that the clinic had established that its clients were "regarded as" disabled.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2007
• Decided 02/12/2008
• Published 02/12/2008

Judges

• Before MOTZ and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and BRINKEMA, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jeffrey Grant Cook, Paul M. Mayhew, Baltimore County Office of Law, Towson, Maryland, for Appellants.  Richard A. Simpson, Ross, Dixon & Bell, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  John E. Beverungen, County Attorney, Baltimore County Office of Law, Towson, Maryland, for Appellants.  Deborah A. Jeon, ACLU of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland;  Jimmy R. Rock, Ross, Dixon & Bell, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees.