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The city of Baltimore has filed suit against the wife of former mayoral candidate Otis Rolley, demanding $26,100 for months of leave that were erroneously granted her because of a computer glitch. Charline Rolley took more than 90 days of paid leave — to give birth, tend to her sick infant and work on her husband's campaign — during the time she was employed by Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young's office. The civil suit accuses Rolley of breach of contract and unjust enrichment for taking the leave time and demands that she pay for the salary that she received while taking vacation and sick days that had been incorrectly allotted to her. An attorney for Rolley called the suit "outrageous" and said that she should not have to pay for the city's error.

They came back to M&T Bank Stadium Sunday looking a little older and grayer, some looking as if they hadn't missed too many buffets and others as if they had joint-replacement surgery scheduled in the morning. Didn't matter. Oh, did the sell-out crowd show them some love. These were the Super Bowl XXXV-champion Ravens, some 35 members of that team, anyway, in town to celebrate the 10th anniversary of that title. They formed a gantlet during the pre-game introductions and slapped hands with the current Ravens as they raced out of the tunnel.

The county election board voted unanimously Friday to defend a Feb. 24 Circuit Court suit alleging that the most recent County Council redistricting is constitutionally defective and invalid.At issue iswhether council districts can be created by a resolution rather thana bill. The council, voting along party lines, created districts by resolution in December that were identical to those in a bill vetoed by County Executive Charles I. Ecker.Republicans David P. Maier of Elkridge and Louis M. Pope of Laurel are suing the board because the board accepted the council resolution as valid.

Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has scheduled a public meeting FTC tomorrow at Aberdeen High School on the settlement of an American Civil Liberties Union housing bias suit that will enable hundreds of black families to move from Baltimore's public housing to the suburbs.Karl Aumann, director of the Republican congressman's district office, said he expects the 7 p.m. meeting to attract a tenth of the approximately 1,500 who packed a session in Dundalk three months ago to voice opposition to the settlement of the suit against the city and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Maryland Troopers Association, which sued the state over plans to lay off 83 troopers, withdrew the suit in Baltimore County Circuit Court yesterday, citing a new state deficit-reduction plan that would avoid the layoffs.But the troopers' attorney told a Baltimore County judge that they would return if the ax swings their way again.In granting their request to dismiss the case without prejudice, Circuit Judge Joseph F. Murphy Jr. said, "As I understand it, the relief being sought is moot in light of developments in Annapolis."

A white Republican and a black Democrat have filed suit challenging the plan to redistrict the Baltimore City Council.The suit was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court by Ross Z. Pierpont, who has frequently run as a GOP candidate for various political offices, and Aaron Wilkes, 23, a college student. The suit contends that black voting strength is diluted by the redistricting plan and that it would illegally split up areas of the city linked by tradition or geography.The City Council approved the redistricting plan on March 22 after a week of emotional debate, tense negotiations and back-room deals.

U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis has ruled that a stockholder's suit against Baltimore Bancorp will be a class-action case. The decision could open the bank-holding company to larger damages if the shareholder is successful in the suit.Baltimore Bancorp is the fifth-largest banking operation in the state and is the parent of the Bank of Baltimore.The case was brought by Frank Tischler of Parkton, who bought 500 shares of Baltimore Bancorp at $9.50 a share on Aug. 31, 1990. The value of the stock subsequently declined to $5.125 a share on Nov. 1, 1990.

WASHINGTON -- Six black Secret Service officers who sued the Denny's restaurant chain last year for discriminatory treatment at an Annapolis restaurant are among 58 plaintiffs nationwide who will collect between $15,000 and $35,000 each under a settlement announced yesterday by the Justice Department.The $46 million agreement, in which Denny's also promised to try to prevent any future racial bias against customers, amounts to the largest corporate program ever to avert discrimination in public places.

Attorneys for a Lutheran pastor accused in a $208 million civil lawsuit of "manipulating" a former parishioner into having a sexual relationship argue that their client could not be sued for alleged "malpractice" without violating religious freedom and the separation of church and state.In a hearing on a motion to dismiss the case before trial in Howard County Circuit Court, Judge Cornelius F. Sybert Jr. presided over a debate that had more to do with the two fundamental constitutional principles governing religion than they did with the alleged improper sexual relationship.

Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent said he expects Leonard Kleinman's lawsuit against him to be dropped today, a key step in George Steinbrenner's campaign to regain control of the New York Yankees.Kleinman, former chief operating officer of the Yankees, sued Vincent for $22 million after the commissioner blocked him from succeeding Steinbrenner as managing general partner in August 1990. Steinbrenner paid for the suit at first, then asked Kleinman to drop it when it became an obstacle to Steinbrenner's discussing a return to the Yankees.