Maureen Joan Johnson v. Patrick Andrew Konka

Civil procedure: Appellate briefs: Dismissal for violation Maryland Rules

CSA No. 1852, Sept. Term 2010. Unreported. Opinion by Watts, J. Filed Sept. 17, 2012. RecordFax #12-0917-05, 13 pages.

Dismissal of the appeal was warranted where the appellant’s brief violated the Maryland Rules in several serious ways (which, in combination, genuinely interfered with the appellate court’s ability to address the merits of the appeal) and where counsel had already been given one opportunity to amend the brief.

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