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Contracts — Class action — Purchase of new home These consolidated appeals arise from the entry of summary judgment in three putative class action lawsuits by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. Each lawsuit is based on a contract ...

Contracts — Class action — Purchase of new home These consolidated appeals arise from the entry of summary judgment in three putative class action lawsuits by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. Each lawsuit is based on a contract ...

Contracts — Class action — Purchase of new home These consolidated appeals arise from the entry of summary judgment in three putative class action lawsuits by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. Each lawsuit is based on a contract ...

Contracts — Lease — Maryland Consumer Debt Collection Act This case is complicated. So is this opinion. Read the opinion

Real property — Foreclosure sale — Ratification denial Dominion Rental Holdings, LLC (“Dominion”), the appellant, purchased a condominium unit in Baltimore City at a foreclosure sale. The Substitute Trustee, Shannon Menapace, Esq., the appellee, timely reported the sale to the ...

Torts — Motor torts — Causation witness In the Circuit Court for Harford County, appellant Mary Ayers brought an automobile tort action against appellee Tina Marie Sloane Peterson. During discovery, a dispute arose that resulted in an order precluding the ...

Zoning — Event venue — Special exception The Charles County Board of Appeals (the “Board”) granted Woodville Pines, LLC, (“Woodville”) a “special exception” to use property it owns as an event and conference venue. Several surrounding landowners of the property ...

Worker’s compensation — Statute of limitations — Request for further compensation This is an appeal from an on-the-record petition for judicial review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission (“the Commission”). Read the opinion

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Hotel room search Following a two-day trial, a Howard County jury convicted appellant Luis Felepe Huggins of first-degree assault, use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, possession ...

Criminal law — Sufficiency of evidence — False statement to law enforcement officer Appellant Welton Simpson Jr. was convicted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of making a false statement to a law enforcement officer in violation of Md. ...