Maryland Court of Appeals Decisions 2022
Date: December 29, 2022
Docket Number: 1m/22
Justia Opinion Summary: In this insurance dispute brought by Insured seeking declarations that the policies issued by Insurer covered the losses it had suffered from repairing and remediating its physical space to accommodate the health…
Date: December 20, 2022
Docket Number: 14/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the appellate court affirming the circuit court's denial of Petitioner's petition for writ of actual innocence, holding that there was no abuse of discretion. After a jury…
Date: December 19, 2022
Docket Number: 15/22
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case considering whether unprovoked flight in a high-crime area should no longer be considered a factor that gives rise to rebate articulable suspicion for a Terry stop, the Supreme Court held that, under the…
Date: December 19, 2022
Docket Number: 7/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the reversal of the decision of the Comptroller of Maryland denying a pass-through entity's claim for a refund of estimated tax payments it made during the 2012 tax year when the pass-through…
Date: December 15, 2022
Docket Number: 1m/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that when a first-party, all-risk property insurance policy covers "all risks of physical loss or damage" to insured property from any cause unless excluded, coverage is not triggered when a toxic,…
Date: December 1, 2022
Docket Number: 5/22
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal centering on the existence of a valid arbitration agreement the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the circuit court, holding that the circuit court erred…
Date: December 1, 2022
Docket Number: 6/22
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case arising from a dispute over the purchase of residential real property in Charles County, the Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the appellate court affirming the judgment of the circuit court granting…
Date: December 1, 2022
Docket Number: 9/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the circuit court's judgment affirming the decision of the Maryland Workers' Compensation Commission granting Respondent's request for…
Date: October 24, 2022
Docket Number: 64/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals reversing the decision of the post-conviction court determining that Appellant's trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to…
Date: August 31, 2022
Docket Number: 21mo/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals denied Petitioners' exceptions to the special magistrate's recommendation that their challenges to the most recent districting plan adopted by the General Assembly be rejected, holding that…
Date: August 29, 2022
Docket Number: 46/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the decision of the circuit court denying Defendant's motion to suppress the fruits of the warrantless search of his backpack and the…
Date: August 29, 2022
Docket Number: 47/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that an injured tort claimant's rights under a general liability insurance policy do not vest until the claimant has obtained a judgment against, or entered into a qualifying settlement with, an…
Date: August 26, 2022
Docket Number: 24/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals ruled that the Board of Appeals of Baltimore County erred in reversing an administrative law judge's determination that substantial changes existed between an original development plan and a later…
Date: August 26, 2022
Docket Number: 29/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that ambiguity in a sentencing court's remarks about a juvenile offender's post-offense conduct and character, when made before the Supreme Court issued its decisions governing the sentencing of…
Date: August 26, 2022
Docket Number: 30/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court denying Appellant's motion to correct an illegal sentence, holding that Appellant's sentencing…
Date: August 26, 2022
Docket Number: 31/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court denying Petitioner's motion to correct an illegal sentence, holding that Petitioner's claim did not…
Date: August 26, 2022
Docket Number: 32/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals ruling that it was error to admit a video recording in the underlying criminal trial but the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt,…
Date: August 26, 2022
Docket Number: 34/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the decision of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants in this case involving violent peer conflicts…
Date: August 26, 2022
Docket Number: 53/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that the Forest Conservation Act of 1991 (the Act) and regulations promulgated by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) required a right to appeal the approval of a forest…
Date: August 26, 2022
Docket Number: 61/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals vacated Defendant's convictions for second-degree assault and second-degree child abuse by a custodian, holding that Defendant, an Afrian American man, was prejudiced by the fact that the Sheriff's…
Date: August 25, 2022
Docket Number: 43/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals vacated the judgment of the court of special appeals reversing the decision of the trial court granting summary judgment to Defendants in this professional malpractice action, holding that the…
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: 18/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the circuit court denying Petitioner's complaint seeking an injunction and declaratory relief to enjoin a student member on the Board of Education of Howard County from…
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: 56/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the court of special appeals reversing Defendant's sentence on the ground that the district court's failure to advise Defendant of the duration of his probation, as required…
Date: August 15, 2022
Docket Number: 23/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the court of special appeals reversing Defendant's conviction of one count of second-degree assault, holding that it was harmless error to fail to propound a voir dire…
Date: August 15, 2022
Docket Number: 26/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court denying Petitioner's petition for a writ of error coram nobis, holding that the circuit court did not…
Date: August 15, 2022
Docket Number: 44/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming the circuit court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Montgomery County in this workers' compensation case, holding that there was…
Date: August 15, 2022
Docket Number: 48/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals agreed with the conclusions of the circuit court and the court of appeals that the record containing the "code key" assigning each judge a code for purposes of access to information about court…
Date: August 15, 2022
Docket Number: 57/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court granting Defendants' respective motions to dismiss the underlying survivorship and wrongful death…
Date: August 11, 2022
Docket Number: 52/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the circuit court ruling that a household exclusion in umbrella policy issued by The Travelers Indemnity Company (TIC) was valid and enforceable, holding that the circuit…
Date: August 11, 2022
Docket Number: 54/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming Defendant's conviction of first-degree murder and related gun offenses, holding that it was not reversible error for a circuit court to…
Date: August 11, 2022
Docket Number: 59/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals vacated the judgment of the court of special appeals concluding that Appellant had waived his right to appeal the denial of his motion to suppress, holding that Appellant did not waive his right to…
Date: August 11, 2022
Docket Number: 62/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals ruling that it is possible for an accessory before the fact to aid, on impulse and without premeditation, another in the commission of a homicide…
Date: August 11, 2022
Docket Number: 6m/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that a law firm that engages in debt collection activities on behalf of a client, including the preparation of a promissory note containing a confessed judgment clause and filing of a confessed…
Date: August 1, 2022
Docket Number: 55/21
Justia Opinion Summary: In this action challenging a proposed amendment that would remove two schoolhouses from a county list of historically protected sites the Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming…
Date: July 28, 2022
Docket Number: 11m/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that when a landlord attempts to collect unpaid rent from a tenant during a period when the landlord was unlicensed a tenant may have a claim under the Maryland Consumer Debt Collection Act…
Date: July 28, 2022
Docket Number: 39/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that Baltimore City Council's enactment of a local law did not create a private right of action for Baltimore City tenants to recoup rent payments and related fees they paid in connection with…
Date: July 28, 2022
Docket Number: 42/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the circuit court granting the motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict filed by Prince George's Hospital Center of Dimensions Health Corporation (Hospital) after the…
Date: July 28, 2022
Docket Number: 48/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the conclusions of the circuit court and court of special appeals that the "code key that matches alphanumeric codes in Case Search to the judges on the District Court in Baltimore City" was…
Date: July 28, 2022
Docket Number: 60/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the circuit court's award of custody of T.K. under Md. Cts. & Jud. Proc. 3-819(e) to a previously non-custodial father, holding that…
Date: July 15, 2022
Docket Number: 40/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants in this wrongful death action, holding that the…
Date: July 13, 2022
Docket Number: 14/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that the trial courts in these two labor and employment cases erred in granting summary judgment at the conclusion of the workers' evidence at trial because genuine issues of material fact…
Date: July 13, 2022
Docket Number: 63/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that article III, section 305 of the Charter for Prince George's County establishes the procedures for decennial redistricting of councilmanic districts and requires the Prince George's County…
Date: July 12, 2022
Docket Number: 51/21
Justia Opinion Summary: In these actions brought by tax sale buyers for declaratory and injunctive relief alleging that Maryland sheriffs exceeded their express and implied authority by adopting policies concerning how to execute writs of…
Date: July 7, 2022
Docket Number: 38/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the court of special appeals denying a motion for reconsideration of the circuit court's judgment reversing the decision of the County Board of…
Date: July 7, 2022
Docket Number: 59/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals vacated the judgment of the court of special appeals concluding that Defendant had waived his right to appeal the denial of his suppression motion, holding that Defendant did not waive his right to…
Date: June 27, 2022
Docket Number: 5/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the court of special appeals reversing Defendant's conviction for various crimes related to the murders of two high school seniors, holding that the court of special appeals…
Date: June 21, 2022
Docket Number: 15/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the court of special appeals reversing Defendant's conviction for murder and related charges on the grounds that the trial court erred in admitting certain expert testimony,…
Date: June 21, 2022
Docket Number: 27/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the court of special appeals reversing the judgment of the circuit court, sitting as the juvenile court, denying D.D.'s motion to suppress evidence of a loaded gun found by…
Date: June 8, 2022
Docket Number: 45/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming Defendant's convictions for first-degree felony murder, first-degree burglary, and the theft of a Jeep, holding that Defendant was not…
Date: June 1, 2022
Docket Number: 25/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decisions of the lower courts affirming a general permit that the Maryland Department of the Environment issued for operators of thirty-five small municipal separate storm sewer systems…
Date: May 31, 2022
Docket Number: 49/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals reversing the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Irwin Industrial Tool Company in this wrongful death and product liability…
Date: May 13, 2022
Docket Number: 3m/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals answered a certified question of law by holding that Md. Code Comm. Law (CL) 12-1018(b) requires a credit grantor that is found to have knowingly violated Credit Grantor Closed End Credit Provisions…
Date: April 28, 2022
Docket Number: 35/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals, which affirmed Defendants' convictions of possessing a firearm, holding that the State provided sufficient evidence to establish that Defendants…
Date: April 28, 2022
Docket Number: 6/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that the circuit court did not err in ordering the City of Balitmore to execute a tax sale deed conveying legal title to the property to Ty Webb, LLC, the assignee of Thorton Mellon, LLC, the…
Date: April 27, 2022
Docket Number: 5m/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals answered a certified question of law by concluding that the then-Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbara of the Court of Appeals acted within her authority and consistently with the Maryland Constitution when…
Date: April 25, 2022
Docket Number: 28/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that a determination of whether to order reimbursement of attorney's fees under Md. Code Ann., Tax-Property (TP) 14-843(a)(4)(i) after a complaint has been filed is discretionary and that a…
Date: April 25, 2022
Docket Number: 7m/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that, under Maryland law, an individual cannot be convicted of robbery by means of threatening force against property or threatening to accuse the victim of having committed sodomy. Defendant…
Date: April 1, 2022
Docket Number: 19/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the tax court reversing the decision of the Comptroller of Maryland denying Broadway Services Inc.'s request for an offset and refund of the taxes it paid to cleaning supply…
Date: March 25, 2022
Docket Number: 37/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed Defendant's conviction of second-degree murder and possession of a firearm, holding that Defendant's contentions on appeal were unavailing. After a trial, the jury found Defendant guilty of…
Date: March 25, 2022
Docket Number: 41/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of driving under the influence of alcohol per se and driving while impaired by…
Date: March 25, 2022
Docket Number: 7/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the decision of the circuit court ordering the parties to arbitrate their dispute, holding that the lower courts did not err. The…
Date: March 25, 2022
Docket Number: 8/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals reversing the judgment of the circuit court granting summary judgment to Pabst Brewing Company (Pabst) and dismissing this breach of contract…
Date: March 14, 2022
Docket Number: 11/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that a defendant's right to a unanimous jury verdict is violated when the State presents evidence of multiple incidents at trial to prove a single charged count in the absence of an election…
Date: March 14, 2022
Docket Number: 22/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals finding that Petitioner waived his objections to the trial court's denial of his proposed voir dire questions, holding that Petitioner failed to…
Date: February 8, 2022
Docket Number: 4m/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that only the amount that a workers' compensation insurer actually pays for medical expenses is part of the statutory offset against underinsured motorist benefits. Michael Gilliam was injured…
Date: February 3, 2022
Docket Number: 10/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the juvenile court ordering S.F. to attend school regularly without any suspensions as a condition of probation,…
Date: February 3, 2022
Docket Number: 13/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of second-degree assault and misconduct in office, holding that there was no…
Date: January 28, 2022
Docket Number: 16/21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming Defendant's conviction for gross negligence involuntary manslaughter but reversing his conviction for depraved heart murder, holding…
Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. You should read the full case before relying on it for legal research purposes.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
