Maryland Supreme Court Decisions 2023
Date: December 21, 2023
Docket Number: 65/22
Justia Opinion Summary: In the Matter of Antavis Chavis, the Supreme Court of Maryland ruled that a bar applicant diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) had met his burden to prove that he had a "disability" under the…
Date: November 28, 2023
Docket Number: 2/23
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Chancery reversed the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of murder and child abuse, holding that the circuit court erred in admitting evidence of Defendant's prior conviction for child abuse…
Date: September 12, 2023
Docket Number: 25/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the appellate court reversing the judgment of the circuit court concluding that Defendant could not show that he was prejudiced by his counsel's assistance under Strickland v.…
Date: September 1, 2023
Docket Number: 23/22
Justia Opinion Summary: In this zoning dispute involving the interplay between the public's interest in the future of a private airport in Prince George's County and the financial interests of its owner, the Supreme Court held that the amended…
Date: August 31, 2023
Docket Number: 20/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) arbitrarily and capriciously denied Open Justice Baltimore's (OJB) request for a fee waiver in relation to the production of closed files relating to…
Date: August 31, 2023
Docket Number: 23/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the appellate court reversing the judgment of the circuit court finding that a county ordinance did not violate Maryland's uniformity requirement requiring zoning laws to "be…
Date: August 31, 2023
Docket Number: 25/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the circuit court on postconviction review ordering a new trial for Petitioner, holding that Petitioner was provided ineffective assistance of counsel due to trial counsel's…
Date: August 31, 2023
Docket Number: 37/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the appellate court reversing the judgment of the circuit court granting Defendants' motion to dismiss this case for failure to state a claim upon…
Date: August 30, 2023
Docket Number: 16/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the appellate court affirming the circuit court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendant in this action brought under the Maryland Health Care Worker Whistleblower…
Date: August 30, 2023
Docket Number: 30/22
Justia Opinion Summary: In this professional malpractice action, the Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the appellate court reversing the summary judgment of the trial court in favor of Defendant because Plaintiff could not prove damages and…
Date: August 30, 2023
Docket Number: 33/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Maryland law allows spouse to allocate martial assets in a postnuptial agreement based on whether a spouse engaged in adultery, thereby causing the breakdown of the marriage, thus affirming…
Date: August 30, 2023
Docket Number: 38/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Jacob Bennett was not barred from serving on the Harford County Council because of his employment as a schoolteacher by the Harford County Board of Education, thus reversing the contrary order…
Date: August 29, 2023
Docket Number: 2m/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the post-conviction court denying Petitioner's pro se petition for post-conviction relief, holding that the post-conviction court did not err in denying the…
Date: August 28, 2023
Docket Number: 2m/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the post-conviction court denying Defendant's petition for post-conviction relief, holding that the post-conviction court did not err in ruling that trial counsel had not…
Date: August 22, 2023
Docket Number: 23/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the appellate court reversing the judgment of the circuit court denying Constituents' challenge to the amendment to a zoning ordinance limiting development of housing at a…
Date: August 14, 2023
Docket Number: 24m/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court granting Defendant's motion to dismiss Petitioner's petition for judicial review of a decision of a hearing examiner with the Fire and Police Employees'…
Date: August 14, 2023
Docket Number: 28m/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court answered three questions certified by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland in this suit brought against Catholic Relief Services-United States Conference of Catholic Bishops…
Date: August 14, 2023
Docket Number: 34/22
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case involving the criminal trial of two co-defendants whose cases had been consolidated and was initially scheduled for a date beyond the appropriate date under the "Hicks rule" and the trial court made no…
Date: August 14, 2023
Docket Number: 9m/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the Maryland Tort Claims Act's (MTCA), Md. Code Ann. State Gov't (SG) 12-104(a)(1), waiver of sovereign immunity as to a "tort action" does not extend to federal statutory claims. Plaintiff…
Date: August 9, 2023
Docket Number: 11/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court upheld the final determination of the Maryland Department of the Environment to reissue with revisions a general discharge permit to Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs), holding that the Department's final…
Date: July 28, 2023
Docket Number: 19/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court remanded this case for additional fact-finding, holding that this Court declines to reach the merits of the questions for which the Court granted certiorari because additional fact-finding was required…
Date: July 26, 2023
Docket Number: 22/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the appellate court affirming Petitioner's conviction for child sexual abuse and other related sexual offenses, holding that Petitioner was not entitled to relief on his claims…
Date: July 26, 2023
Docket Number: 26/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the appellate court affirming the order of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants and dismissing Plaintiff's negligence claim, holding that the…
Date: July 17, 2023
Docket Number: 36/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in data contained on his hard drive and that the government conducted an unreasonable search by examining data without any authority to do so…
Date: July 14, 2023
Docket Number: 10/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of first-degree murder and related handgun offenses, holding that the circuit court abused its discretion in permitting a firearms…
Date: July 12, 2023
Docket Number: 32/22
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal stemming from a challenge to Maryland's Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax Act, the Supreme Court vacated the orders of the circuit court granting a declaratory judgment that a digital advertising tax…
Date: July 7, 2023
Docket Number: 36/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the appellate court reversing the decision of the circuit circuit court that examination of data contained on Defendant's hard drive was not a search in violation of the Fourth…
Date: June 20, 2023
Docket Number: 10/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Petitioner's conviction for first-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime, holding that the circuit court erred in permitting a firearms examiner to testify, without…
Date: June 20, 2023
Docket Number: 28/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the appellate court concluding that the circuit court erred in determining that there was no public road over the parcel of real property in St. Mary's County at issue in this…
Date: June 20, 2023
Docket Number: 31/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the appellate court affirming the decision of the circuit court denying Appellant's motion to dismiss the charges against him after this Court remanded his case to the circuit…
Date: May 31, 2023
Docket Number: 8/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgment of the appellate court deciding the merits of Defendant's appeal and affirming Defendant's conviction for voluntary manslaughter and related offenses,…
Date: April 24, 2023
Docket Number: 10m/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court denying Petitioner's petition for post-conviction DNA testing pursuant to Md. Code Ann. Crim. Proc. 8-201(b)(1), holding that Petitioner was not entitled to…
Date: April 5, 2023
Docket Number: 38pc/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court remanded this case to the circuit court for entry of a declaratory judgment that Jacob Bennett was qualified to serve as a member of the Harford County Council while simultaneously being employed as a…
Date: March 29, 2023
Docket Number: 17/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the appellate court dismissing Appellant's appeal of the circuit court's ruling affirming the judgment of the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights finding no probable cause to…
Date: March 29, 2023
Docket Number: 21/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court holding that Md. Code Ann., Elec. Law 8-103(b)(1) is constitutional, determining that the State Board of Elections had proven the existence of emergency…
Date: February 27, 2023
Docket Number: 18/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of sexual abuse of a minor under Md. Code Ann., Crim. Law (CR) 3-602, holding that, under the applicable standard of review, the evidence was sufficient for a rational…
Date: February 24, 2023
Docket Number: 12/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the appellate court affirming the circuit court's judgment reversing the determination of the Board of Public Works that a decision of the procurement officer for the Department…
Date: February 23, 2023
Docket Number: 4/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court affirming the determination of the Planning Board that Amazon Services, LLC's's proposed use of property it owned in Prince George's County fell within the…
Date: January 25, 2023
Docket Number: 1/22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court granting the motion for summary judgment brought by Calvert County, Maryland and dismissing the claims brought by Petitioners, four Calvert County residents,…
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