A ppellate Watch by Walter E. Laake
Walter E. Laake, Jr. is a partner in the firm Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, P.A. of Greenbelt. He received his J. D. from the Univ. of Maryland School of Law. Mr. Laake is a member of MTLA’s Board of Governors and a member of its President’s Club as a Founder. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Membership Committee and is a member of the Amicus and Unfair Insurance Claim Practices Committees. Mr. Laake is a Past President of the Prince George’s County Bar and serves on its Trial Courts Judicial Nominating Commission. He is also a member of the Attorney Grievance Commission’s Inquiry Panel, the TLPJ, and a Lifetime member of ATLA. His practice includes professional negligence, product liability, and employment law.
Case # Case Name 37-451
Counsel for Appellant Area of Law
Sanorae S. Evans-Banks Timothy Guy Smith v. Pattie R. Tolliver
301-587-7080
Motion in Limine/ Attorney-Client Privilege
38-912
Sarah Fried, et al. v. Kim Archer, et al.
Clifford L. Hardwick
410-727-0828 Negligence/Governmental Immunity
Carr/Harford County Judge Jurisdiction
Whalen/Prince George’s County
Issues
Did the trial court err in allowing the defendant, over ob- jection, to inquire of the plaintiff whether her attorney referred her to her treating physician following which the jury awarded no damages?
With a winter storm approaching, a police dispatcher was anonymously notified of an intoxicated, unconscious youth in the woods behind a house in a residential complex. The dispatcher gave the wrong address to the patrol officers, as a result of which the youth died of exposure. Did the trial court err in granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss holding that no duty of care existed between the dispatch operator and the deceased and further applying the “spe- cial relationship analysis” to the government defendant who was not a public official but rather a government employee?
39-1102- Guang-Sha Wang a/k/a Walter Booth 301-913-0070 Montgomery County 1103
Sharon Wang, et al. v. Bogdan Buildings, Inc.
Lefta, Inc., et al. 41-1484 Myrtle Bowen v. Annette Marie Solomon
David E. Fox 202-955-5300 Civil Procedure/Evidence
Smith/Prince George’s County
Ratification of an Arbitration Award
40-1424 Rosedale Plaza Limited William J. Selle 410-266-9500 Partnership v.
Ownership of Liquor License
Bollinger/Baltimore County
Did the trial court err in affirming the arbitration award despite the fact that appellant had discharged her desig- nated arbitrator prior to the final arbitration hearing and therefore argues she was denied due process?
In a case which originally began in the bankruptcy court, did the trial court err in reversing its earlier ruling and hold- ing that the individual licensee had no ownership interest in a liquor license, but that ownership resided in the corpo- ration for whose use the license was issued?
During cross-examination of plaintiff’s expert witness, whose testimony was being taken by videotape, defense counsel asked the attending physician to review and then read into evidence the IME report of Dr. Bruce Ammerman. Did the trial court err in denying plaintiff’s motion to strike all references to Dr. Ammerman’s report (who was not called to testify at trial) ruling that plaintiff’s counsel failed at the deposition to state with sufficient specificity the reason for the objection and further ruling that pursuant to Davis v. Goodman (700 A.2d 798, 117 Md. App. (1997)) the court could not consider redacting any portion of the deposition prior to when appellant’s counsel first noted an objection at page 60 of the deposition?
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