Petitions for Writ of Certiorari - August 2018

PETITIONS FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI

September Term, 2017

 

 

Granted August 10, 2018

Commissioner of Labor and Industry v. The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company - Case No. 30, September Term, 2018

Issues – Labor & Employment – 1) Did Petitioner correctly determine that Respondent’s failure to follow the shoring-tower manufacturer’s instructions to use gooser braces in assembling a shoring tower supporting a concrete slab, which resulted in serious injury and death, constituted a recognized hazard within the meaning of § 5-104(a) of the Labor & Employment Article (“L&E”)? 2) Did Petitioner correctly determine that Respondent’s use of an undersized spacer beam in the upper support system of a shoring tower constituted a recognized hazard within the meaning of L&E § 5-104(a)?

In re: G.R. - Case No. 32, September Term, 2018

Issue – Criminal Procedure – Where a robbery victim whose house keys are stolen takes the reasonable and prudent action of replacing the locks that corresponded to the stolen keys, are the costs associated with replacing those compromised locks a “direct result” of the robbery for the purposes of ordering restitution?

State of Maryland v. Purnell Shortall - Case No. 31, September Term, 2018

Issues – Criminal Procedure – 1) Did CSA misapply the Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), standard when it reversed the post-conviction court’s determination that counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to a continuing violation jury instruction? 2) Assuming CSA correctly determined that trial counsel was ineffective, did CSA err by ordering the vacating of Respondent’s convictions instead of remanding for a new trial?

State of Maryland v. Patrick Joseph Thomas a/k/a Patrick Joseph Patrick - Case No. 33, September Term, 2018

Issues – Criminal Law – 1) As a matter of first impression, may a seller of heroin be convicted of a murder-related offense where the buyer of the heroin dies after ingesting it? 2) Did CSA assume facts not in evidence and otherwise usurp the role of the fact-finder when it held that, as a matter of law, the State presented insufficient evidence of gross negligence and causation to sustain Respondent’s manslaughter conviction?

 

Granted August 30, 2018

Joan Floyd et al. v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore - Case No. 35, September Term, 2018

Issue – Zoning & Planning – Did Petitioners sufficiently plead taxpayer standing to allow their challenge to the enactment of new comprehensive zoning maps to be adjudicated and did the trial court err when it granted the motion to dismiss for lack of taxpayer standing?

 

 

Denied August 31, 2018

Awah v. Hayford - Pet. Docket No. 520
Bass, Bradford v. State - Pet. Docket No.  184 *
Beauchamp v. McCabe Weisberg Conway LLC - Pet. Docket No. 154 *
Berger v. Berger - Pet. Docket No. 164 *
Bickford, David Paul v. State - Pet. Docket No. 188 *
Chambers, O'Neil Denovan v. State - Pet. Docket No. 171 *
Clements, David Thomas v. State - Pet. Docket No. 213 *
Codale Commercial Funding v. Villages of Marlborough - Pet. Docket No. 161 *
Dedjoe v. BMW of North America - Pet. Docket No. 170 *
Disilvestri, Robert v. State - Pet. Docket No. 205 *
Dorsey, David v. State - Pet. Docket No. 218 *
Falls Road Community Ass'n. v. Baltimore Co. - Pet. Docket No. 195 *
Feaster, Isaiah v. State - Pet. Docket No. 186 *
Feller v. Feller - Pet. Docket No. 162 *
Flynn v. Consumer Protection Div. - Pet. Docket No. 138 *
Fogle, Anthony v. State - Pet. Docket No. 193 *
Food & Water Watch v. Dept. of Environment - Pet. Docket No. 212 *
Fouth-Tchos v. Mahob - Pet. Docket No. 194 *
Fuller, Gerald D. v. State - Pet. Docket No. 206 *
Gladhill v. Geer - Pet. Docket No. 172 *
Heidary v. Paradise Point - Pet. Docket No. 174 *
Heron v. Wilson - Pet. Docket No. 209 *
Johnson, Carroll v. State - Pet. Docket No. 211 *
Marion E. Pisner Trust v. Rubenstein - Pet. Docket No. 160 *
McCloud, David v. State - Pet. Docket No. 178 *
Membrano-Vasquez, Alejandro v. State - Pet. Docket No. 173 *
Montgomery Co. v. Genon Mid-Atlantic - Pet. Docket No. 157 *
National Surety v. K&C Framing - Pet. Docket No. 163 *
Norman-Bradford v. Baltimore City Public Schools - Pet. Docket No. 179 *
Obando, Marta v. State - Pet. Docket No. 199 *
Ojo v. Nyambi - Pet. Docket No. 47 *
Orellana, Milton v. State - Pet. Docket No. 177 *
Prailow, Gordon Maurice v. State - Pet. Docket No. 185 *
Preston, Richard v. State - Pet. Docket No. 197 *
Ready v. Brown - Pet. Docket No. 166 *
Rhoe v. Montgomery Co. Off. of Child Support Enforcement - Pet. Docket No. 201 *
Sewell v. Dore - Pet. Docket No. 203 *
Snider, Kevin Edward v. State - Pet. Docket No. 192 *
Staub, Douglas v. State - Pet. Docket No. 43 *
Traverso, Jaime v. State - Pet. Docket No. 216 *
Tshiwala, Benoit v. State - Pet. Docket No. 189 *
Turner-Bey, Shahid v. State - Pet. Docket No. 214 *
United Bank v. Buckingham - Pet. Docket No. 200 *
Warnick v. Warnick - Pet. Docket No. 202 *
Wenzel v. Motor Vehicle Admin. - Pet. Docket No. 135 * 
Wilder, Brandon Dean v. State - Pet. Docket No. 198 * 





* Sept. Term, 2018