SCHEDULE OF ORAL ARGUMENTS
September Term, 2023
Monday, January 8, 2024:
Bar Admissions
No. 17 Doctor's Weight Loss Centers, Inc., et al. v. Shelly Blackston
Issue – Torts – Did ACM utilize the correct standard for determining when a cause of action manifested itself to determine the correct choice of law using the lex loci delicti rule
Attorney for Petitioner: David A. Roling
Attorney for Respondent: Alfred F. Belcuore
No. 18 Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition, et al. v. Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County
Issues – Business Regulations – 1) Did the ACM err in holding that §5-505 of the Business Relations Article of the Md. Code is nothing more than a “quiet title” statute, providing land owners with an optional proceeding that they may choose to institute when selling land containing a burial ground if they wish to convey a “clean” title to the realty? 2) Under Maryland law, does a court of equity need to assess whether (and if so, on what conditions) a property owner can sell land containing a burial ground for non-burial use in view of the 1829 decision of the United States Supreme Court in Beatty v. Kurtz, which (applying Maryland law) charged courts of chancery operating pursuant to their equity powers “to preserve the repose of the ashes of the dead and the religious sensibilities of the living,” as well as subsequent decisions by this Court and other courts?
Attorney for Petitioner: Steven Lieberman
Attorney for Respondent: Frederick A. Douglas
After January 8, 2024, the Court will recess until February 1, 2024. On the day of argument, counsel must register in the Clerk’s Office no later than 9:30 a.m. unless otherwise notified.
GREGORY HILTON
CLERK