On these pages, the Supreme Court of Maryland archives videos of the current term year oral arguments and videos of the oral arguments from the preceding three term years. Videos of arguments from earlier term years are available upon request. The Court's archive of oral argument videos covers the period from May 2007 to the present.
SEPTEMBER TERM 2024 Webcasts
April 2025 Oral Arguments
March 2025 Oral Arguments
February 2025 Oral Arguments
January 2025 Oral Arguments
December 2024 Oral Arguments
November 2024 Oral Arguments
October 2024 Oral Arguments
September 2024 Oral Arguments
SEPTEMBER TERM 2023 Webcasts
Oral Arguments Archives
September Term 2023 Webcasts
September Term 2022 Webcasts
September Term 2021 Webcasts
Webcasts and the archived recordings of webcasts are made available to the general public for informational purposes only and do not constitute an official record of court proceedings. Recording or copying of any portion of the live webcast or the archived recording of a webcast is prohibited without the express permission of the Supreme Court, which can be obtained by contacting Government Relations and Public Affairs at 410-260-1488 or at [email protected]. Copies of the recorded audio of the proceedings are available from the Clerk upon request and payment of a $10.00 fee.
| April 2025 Schedule | ||
| Date | Docket # | Title |
| 04-08-2025 | No. 39 | Sergey S. Danshin v. State of Maryland Issue – Criminal Law – Did the trial court commit reversible error by refusing to propound the pattern jury instruction on defense of others where Petitioner denied being the shooter but the record provided evidence of the Petitioner’s state of mind at the time of the shooting? |
| 04-07-2025 | No. 27 | Janice Hollabaugh v. MRO Corporation Issues – Fees - 1) Whether under Maryland’s Confidentiality of Medical Records Act (CMRA), § 4-304 of the Health General Article, the ACM erred in holding that respondent is permitted to charge a “reasonable cost-based fee” for “retrieval and preparation” of requested medical records, when respondent had no medical records to retrieve, produce or copy? 2) May the dismissal of the petitioner’s complaint be affirmed on the alternative ground that she lacks standing under the CMRA because any claim would have to belong to her attorneys who requested her records and were required to pay the allegedly unauthorized fee? |
| 04-07-2025 | No. 33 | Todd A. Pattison v. Deborah Pattison Issue – Family Law – Did the trial court err in holding that the Voluntary Separation and Property Settlement Agreement signed by both parties was valid and enforceable? |
| 04-04-2025 | Bar Admissions | |
| 04-04-2025 | No. 38 | County Council of Prince George's County v. Robin Dale Land, LLC, et al. Issues – Land Use – 1) Did ACM err when it held that the District Council’s adoption of Council Resolution (CR)-136-2021 approving the Countywide Sectional Map Amendment is not comprehensive rezoning when this Court in Prince George’s Cnty. Council v. Concerned Citizens of Prince George’s Cnty., 485 Md. 150 (2023), and the Maryland General Assembly, recognized that CR-136-2021 is comprehensive rezoning? 2) Did ACM err in its interpretation and application of Section 27-222 of the prior zoning ordinance (concerning sectional map amendments) and this Court’s precedent on the hallmarks of comprehensive rezoning when it held that the District Council’s adoption of CR-136-2021 is not a comprehensive rezoning? 3) Did ACM err when it failed to apply CR-136-2021, a change in law, as required by McHale v. DCW Dutchship Island, 415 Md. 145 (2010), when ACM previously held in Bazzarre v. County Council, 2017 WL 2334472 (May 30, 2017) that none of the property owners had vested or accrued substantive rights. 4) Was the District Council’s adoption of CR-11-2019 and CR-12-2019 approving the Subregion 5 and 6 Master Plans and Sectional Map Amendments, made within the legal boundaries of its plenary legislative powers? |
| 04-04-2025 | No. 35 | Jennifer Adelakun v. Adeniyi Adelakun Issue – Courts and Judicial Proceedings – Is an order denying pendente lite child support and alimony appealable under § 12-303(3)(v) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article? |
| March 2025 Schedule | ||
| Date | Docket # | Title |
| 03-04-2025 | No. 31 The oral arguments in this matter were held at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center at Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland. | Fred Cromartie v. State of Maryland Issues – Criminal Law – 1) Can prosecutors designate a law enforcement officer as the State’s “representative” under Rule 5-615(b)(2), and thereby exempt the officer from otherwise mandatory witness sequestration? 2) If there is an officer exemption under Rule 5-615(b)(2), is that exemption discretionary? 3) May a law enforcement officer designated as a party representative under Rule 5-615(b)(2) provide lay opinion testimony relying on knowledge gained by hearing other witnesses testify? |
| 03-04-2025 | Misc. No 17 The oral arguments in this matter were held at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center at Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland. | Estefany Martinez v. Amazon.com Services, LLC Certified Question of Law from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Does the doctrine of de minimis non curat lex, as described in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., 328 U.S. 680 (1946) and Sandifer v. U.S. Steel Corp., 571 U.S. 220 (2014), apply to claims brought under the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law and the Maryland Wage and Hour Law? |
| 03-03-2025 | Bar Admissions | |
| 03-03-2025 | AG. No. 23 (2023 T.) | Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland v. Gary Steven Pisner |
| 03-03-2025 | No. 34 | In the Matter of the Marriage of Houser Issues – Family Law – 1) Did the trial court err when it issued a child support order after the parties had voluntarily withdrawn child support as a justiciable issue, and the court did so over the objections of the parents who the court found to be fit and proper? 2) Did the trial court mis-apply the statute, or abuse its discretion, when the court ordered child support and arrears over the express objection of the parents who the court found to be fit and proper? 3) Did the trial court violate the parents’ constitutional rights when the court sua sponte, and without evidence, rejected their agreement regarding the financial support of their child when the parents were found to be fit and proper? 4) Does the Maryland child support statute permit parents to waive a party’s child support obligation, as part of a global settlement agreement, where the parties have shared physical custody, and their combined adjusted gross income exceeds the highest level of income set forth in the Maryland child support Guidelines? 5) Does the ACM’s decision have a chilling effect on parents’ rights to enter into agreements that they believe to be in their children’s best interest? |
| 03-03-2025 | Misc. No. 21 | Harry Davis, Jr. v. State of Maryland Certified Question of Law from the Appellate Court of Maryland 1) To establish ineffective assistance of counsel based on the failure to file a motion for modification of sentence, must a defendant prove that he requested trial counsel to file the motion? 2) If not, should Maryland Courts adopt the framework established in Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S. 470 (2000), which addressed an ineffective assistance claim based on the failure to file a notice of appeal, and apply that framework to a claim based on the failure to file a motion for modification? |
| February 2025 Schedule | ||
| Date | Docket # | Title |
| 02-06-2025 | Bar Admissions | |
| 02-06-2025 | No. 24 | Philip Anthony Montague v. State of Maryland Issue – Criminal Procedure – May a trial court deny a person’s motion for reduction of sentence pursuant to the Juvenile Restoration Act, § 8-110 of the Criminal Procedure Article, solely or primarily because he maintained his innocence? |
| 02-06-2025 | No. 28 | James Russell Trimble v. State of Maryland Issues – Criminal Procedure – 1) In light of the General Assembly’s recognition of the mitigating features of youth when enacting the Juvenile Restoration Act, may a circuit court deciding a motion for sentence reduction under § 8-110 of the Criminal Procedure (CP) Article treat “the individual’s age at the time of the offense” as an aggravating factor because the movant was 17 years and approximately 8 months old at the time of the offense? 2) In light of the General Assembly’s intent that CP § 8-110 provide people who were minors at the time of a crime a “meaningful opportunity to obtain release based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation,” did the Appellate Court err in holding that a defendant’s maturity and rehabilitation was not entitled to any greater weight than any of the other ten statutory factors? 3) Did the circuit court err in dismissing extensive evidence of rehabilitation because the petitioner was diagnosed with a psychological disorder? |
| 02-06-2025 | No. 29 | Maryland Indoor Play, LLC, et al. v. Snowden Investment, LLC Issues – Contract Law – 1) Did the ACM expand the right of first refusal by holding that a breach of the right can be established without proof that the buyer was ready, willing, and able to act on it. 2) Did the ACM create and apply a new measure of general damages for breach of contract by allowing the non-breaching party to recover damages measured by the “fair value” as determined years after the alleged breach occurred. |
| January 2025 Schedule | ||
| Date | Docket # | Title |
| 01-07-2025 | No. 22 | Canton Harbor Healthcare Center v. Felicia Robinson, et al. Issues – Tort – 1) Can a registered nurse be a “qualified expert” to attest “that the departure from standards of care is the proximate cause of the alleged injury” as required by Courts & Judicial Proceedings §3-2A-04(b)(1)(i), even though offering a medical diagnosis is outside the authorized scope of nursing practice in Maryland? 2) Can a registered nurse opine whether physicians wrongfully failed to prescribe medicines or undertake appropriate treatment plans? 3) Did ACM improperly rely on Federal regulations regarding Medicare/Medicaid funding of nursing facilities in determining the qualifications of a registered nurse to give a medical causation opinion? |
| 01-06-2025 | No. 20 | Sharon Saunders v. Steven Gilman, et al. Issues – Courts & Judicial Proceedings – 1) Did ACM err when it concluded that no exception to the final judgment rule applies and that it lacked appellate jurisdiction? 2) Does § 12-303(3)(v) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings article permit an immediate appeal from an order finding adverse possession of real property before a final judgment has been entered? |
| 01-06-2025 | No. 25 | In the Matter of Cheryl Lewis, et al. Issues – County Codes – 1) Did ACM err in its interpretation and application of § 5-403 of the Courts & Judicial Proceedings (CJP) Article (immunities related to certain agricultural operations)? 2) Did ACM err in holding that there was substantial evidence in the record to support the Talbot County Agricultural Resolution Board’s decision finding that the long-term storage of materials on and application of materials to farmland is a generally accepted agricultural activity entitled to the rebuttable presumption of Talbot County Code Chapter 128 (the Right-to-Farm law) or CJP §5-403? 3) Did ACM err in applying Chapter 128 and CJP §5-403 when the court held the storage and application of materials did not substantially change the agricultural operation and did not amount to a waiver of protection under Chapter 128 and CJP §5-403? |
| December 2024 Schedule | ||
| Date | Docket # | Title |
| 12-18-2024 | Misc. No. 16 | Roma Scott v. Honorable Paul M. Bowman Petition for wriit of mandamus. |
| 12-10-2024 | Misc. No. 5 | Donald S. Willey, et al. v. Anthony G. Brown, et al. Certified Question of Law from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland 1) What legal standard does the term "reasonable grounds" connote in Maryland's Red Flag Law, codified in Title Five of the Public Safety Article of the Maryland Annotated Code? 2) Does the statue permit an extreme risk protective order to issue upon a standard less than probable cause? |
| 12-10-2024 | No. 23 | State of Maryland, Comptroller of Maryland v. Badlia Brothers, LLC d/b/a/ Southwest Check Cashing Issue – State Government – Where the State has already satisfied its obligation to pay funds pursuant to a state-issued check, did the trial court err in concluding that the State has waived sovereign immunity against a claim by a holder in due course of that check who subsequently seeks to have the State pay that obligation a second time? |
| 12-09-2024 | Bar Admissions | |
| 12-09-2024 | Misc. Nos. 3 & 4 | Government Employees Insurance Company, et al. v. MAO-SSO Recovery II, LLC, Series PMPI, et al. Certified Question of Law from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Whether the assignment of the right to seek and receive unpaid reimbursement of payments for expenses under 42 U.S.C. § 1395y(b)(3)(A) (2018) pursuant to a contingency compensation arrangement/agreement is void as against public policy of Maryland, and if so, whether such an arrangement/agreement is unenforceable regardless of any choice of law provision contained in such an agreement. |
| 12-09-2024 | No. 17 | In the Matter of the Petition of Featherfall Restoration Issues – Insurance Law – 1) Does the standard insurance policy clause prohibiting assignment of “this policy” absent insurer consent prohibit the insured from assigning a post-loss claim benefit under the policy without its consent? 2) Did the lower courts err in affording deference to and affirming the ruling of law by the Maryland Insurance Administration (“MIA”) that anti-assignment clauses in property insurance policies preclude post-loss assignments of claims, instead of following this Court’s precedents upholding post-loss claim assignments in the face of anti-assignment clauses? 3) Did the lower courts err in affirming the MIA’s decision that Petitioner, as an assignee of insurance benefits from the insurer, was not a “claimant” or “aggrieved” with standing to challenge the insurer’s unfair claims settlement practices with respect to the claim assigned? 4) Should the trial court have issued a declaratory judgment that the assignment of claim benefits at issue did not violate the contractual provision that “assignment of this policy will not be valid unless we give our written consent” instead of deferring to the agency’s interpretation of Maryland contract law? (Note: The SCM granted a writ of cert only as to Petitioner’s questions 2, 4, 5, and 6.) |
| 12-09-2024 | No. 21 | Seamus Coyle v. State of Maryland Issues – Criminal Law – 1) When the Office of the Public Defender appointed counsel to Petitioner and approved of assigned counsel’s determination that a petition for writ of certiorari should be filed, was Petitioner entitled to the effective assistance of counsel in filing such a petition? 2) Must prejudice be presumed when, due to ineffective assistance of counsel, Petitioner was denied his right to file a petition for writ of certiorari and did the post-conviction court err in holding that he must establish that the petition would have been granted? |
| November 2024 Schedule | ||
| Date | Docket # | Title |
| 11-08-2024 | No. 12 | Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Jamie Wallace Issues – Natural Resources – 1) Did ACM err when it held that the Maryland Recreational Use Statute, Md. Code, Natural Resources § 5-1101, et seq., (“MRUS”) does not apply to paths in public parks, even where a local government has made the path available for recreational use? 2) Did ACM err when it held that Haley v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 211 Md. 269 (1956), applies to any path that may serve as a “public connector” between parts of the City, so that any such path in a public park is not subject to MRUS protections? |
| 11-08-2024 | No. 13 | Christopher Nguyen v. State of Maryland Issues – Criminal Law – Petition: 1) Does Maryland common law impose on police officers a general “duty to protect,” a breach of which is enforceable in a criminal prosecution for reckless endangerment or other crimes of omission, and if so, is the duty triggered when one suspect assaults another suspect in an officer’s presence? 2) If Petitioner had a “duty to protect”, was the testimony of other officers that they would have separated or stood between the two suspects legally sufficient to prove that Petitioner, by taking neither action, grossly departed from the standard of conduct that a reasonable, similarly situated police officer would have observed? Conditional Cross-Petition: 3) If the “special relationship” requirement extends to criminal cases involving a police officer-defendant accused of committing reckless endangerment by omission, did the ACM err in concluding that no “special relationship” existed between Petitioner and one of the suspects? |
| 11-07-2024 | Bar Admissions | |
| 11-07-2024 | No. 19 | Stephen Zimmerman v. State of Maryland Criminal Procedure – Whether further appellate review lies in either the Supreme Court of Maryland or the Appellate Court of Maryland from a circuit court’s order revoking probation when the circuit court’s order was entered in the exercise of appellate jurisdiction over a decision of the District Court of Maryland. |
| October 2024 Schedule | ||
| Date | Docket # | Title |
| 10-08-2024 | No. 26 | Maryland State Board of Elections, et al. v. Anthony J. Ambridge, et al. Direct appeal under Maryland Election Law. |
| 10-07-2024 | No. 16 | In the Matter of Cindy Isely, Personal Representative of the Estate of Bonnie Campbell Issue – Family Law – Does the reach of Federal preemption extend such that a former spouse is without rights to enforce a contract related to already distributed retirement proceeds from a federal Thrift Savings Plan; or does Maryland follow the reasoning and interpretation set forth in Andochick v. Byrd, 709 F.3d 296 (4th Cir. 2013), allowing a former spouse to enforce a contract right regarding already distributed retirement proceeds to effectuate the intention of the parties? |
| 10-07-2024 | AG No. 42 (2023 T.) | Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland v. Francis Edward Yeatman |
| 10-07-2024 | No. 15 | In re: The Estate of Michael Gerard Schappell Issue – Estates & Trusts – Did ACM err by rejecting Maryland’s longstanding requirement of an agreement to adopt as an element of equitable adoption, instead replacing it with a case-by-case examination of “fairness” factors? |
| 10-02-2024 | No. 11 The oral arguments in this matter were held at Frederick Douglass High School, Northwestern Campus, in Baltimore, Maryland. | Homer Walton, et al. v. Premier Soccer Club, Inc., et al. Issue – Torts – Did ACM properly affirm the trial court’s ruling that a violation of Md. Code Health General Article § 14-501 (concussion policy and awareness) could not be the proximate cause of a concussion injury as a matter of law notwithstanding that the injured person was within the class of persons – youth athletes – that the statute was intended to protect and the injury was the type of injury the statue was designed to prevent? |
| 10-02-2024 | No. 4 The oral arguments in this matter were held at Frederick Douglass High School, Northwestern Campus, in Baltimore, Maryland. | State of Maryland v. Dominick Scarboro Issue – Constitutional Law – When an appellant claims a Sixth Amendment violation of the right to a public trial based on the trial court’s ostensible denial of courtroom access, does the burden lie with appellant to establish preliminarily that the courtroom closure is significant enough (i.e. not “de minimis”) that it implicates the constitutional right and requires analysis under the four-part test articulated in Waller v. Georgia, 467 U.S. 39, 48 (1984)? |
| 10-01-2024 | No. 8 | In re: M.Z. Issue – Family Law – When a court terminates jurisdiction in a CINA case over the objection of a parent, is the parent “aggrieved” by that court’s unfavorable judgment such that the parent is entitled to appeal? |
| 10-01-2024 | No. 14 | Mark Zukowski, et al. v. Anne Arundel County Issue – Workers’ Compensation – Did the General Assembly intend to offset compensation or benefits to be paid directly to claimants when it adopted Md. Code, Labor & Employment Art. § 9-610? |
| September 2024 Schedule | ||
| Date | Docket # | Title |
| 09-10-2024 | Misc. No. 2 No. 10 Please note these cases were consolidated for the purposes of oral argument on the Constitutional question. | The Key School, Inc., et al. v. Valerie Bunker Board of Education of Harford County v. John Doe Constitutional Question Does the Maryland Child Victims Act of 2023, 2023 Md. Laws ch. 5 (S.B. 686), (codified at Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-117), constitute an impermissible abrogation of a vested right in violation of Article 24 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights and/or Article III, Section 40 of the Maryland Constitution? |
| 09-10-2024 | No. 10 This recording is on the standing question only. | Board of Education of Harford County v. John Doe Standing Question As a subdivision of the State, see Bd. Of Educ. v. Sec’y of Personnel, 317 Md. 34, 44-45 (1989), does the petitioner have standing to challenge the constitutionality of the MCVA? |
| 09-10-2024 | No. 9 | Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington v. John Doe, et al. Does the Maryland Child Victims Act of 2023, 2023 Md. Laws ch. 5 (S.B. 686), (codified at Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-117), constitute an impermissible abrogation of a vested right in violation of Article 24 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights and/or Article III, Section 40 of the Maryland Constitution? |
| 09-09-2024 | Misc. No. 50 (2023 T.) | In the Matter of the Application of O. A. S. for Admission to the Bar of Maryland |
| 09-09-2024 | No. 5 | Isiah A. Hollins v. State of Maryland Issue – Criminal Law – 1) Did the ACM erroneously apply a sufficiency of the evidence standard instead of the “some evidence” standard when it upheld the denial of Petitioner’s request for a non-pattern jury instruction regarding the alleged victim’s propensity for violence? 2) Did the trial court violate the Confrontation Clause of the U.S. Constitution when it prohibited Petitioner from cross-examining the alleged victim about visible injuries to rebut the claim raised on direct examination that the victim had outgrown any violence in his past? |
| 09-09-2024 | No. 7 | Moira E. Akers v. State of Maryland Issue – Criminal Law – Is evidence of a pregnant woman’s forgoing prenatal care or evidence of a pregnant woman’s conducting Internet searches about terminating the pregnancy relevant as a matter of law to show the woman’s intent to kill the newborn at birth, or if marginally relevant, unfairly prejudicial? |
| 09-06-2024 | No. 6 | Greenmark Properties, LLC v. Parts, Inc., et al. Issues – Corporations & Associations – 1) Is a contract to sell the only asset of a corporation valid if the contract is signed by the sole shareholder still living at the time of the contract and who held in person or by proxy the right to vote the majority of shares in any business decision, but where the sale was not approved by the personal representative of the estates that held title to the majority of the stock? 2) Is a contract to sell the only asset of the corporation void ab initio because the sale was not approved by the corporation’s shareholders in compliance with § 3-105 of the Corporations and Associations Article? 3) Did the ACM correctly determine that petitioner failed to preserve the issue of its standing to challenge the validity of the second contract under §§ 1-403 and 3-105 of the Corporations and Associations Article? |
| 09-05-2024 | Bar Admissions | |
| 09-05-2024 | No. 1 | SM Landover, LLC v. Wynton Sanders; SM Parkside, LLC v. Tosha Lindsey Issues – Real Property – 1) When does a cause of action accrue under the Disclosure Act, Md. Code, Real Prop. Art. (“RP”) § 14-117(a)(3)(i), for failing to include in the initial contract of sale statutory disclosures relating to deferred water and sewer charges? 2) Is a person who is a “home builder” under Md. Code, Business Regulations Art. (“BR”) §4.5-101 relieved of their duty to register as a “home builder” when a different registered home builder is a party to the same contract? 3) Can the unregistered home builder, acting as the seller, of a new home enforce the sales contract against the purchaser where another party, here the builder of the home, who is a registered home builder is also a party to the sale contract? |
| 09-05-2024 | No. 2 | Caruso Builder Belle Oak, LLC v. Ronalda Sullivan Issue – Real Property - When does a cause of action accrue under the Disclosure Act, Md. Code, Real Prop. Art. § 14-117(a)(3)(i), for failing to include in the initial contract of sale statutory disclosures relating to deferred water and sewer charges? |
| 09-05-2024 | No. 3 | Summer Ledford v. Jenway Contracting, Inc. Issue – Labor & Employment – Did ACM err by extending the exclusivity provision of § 9-509 of the Labor & Employment Article (workers’ compensation) to non-dependents? |
| August 2024 Schedule (September Term 2023) | ||
| Date | Docket # | Title |
| 08-28-2024 | No. 35 | Benedict J. Frederick, III, et al. v. Baltimore City Board of Elections, et al. Direct appeal under Maryland Election Law. |
| 08-28-2024 | No. 34 | Baltimore City Board of Elections, et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, et al. Direct appeal under Maryland Election Law. |