Gisriel v. Ocean City Board of Supervisors of Elections

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• holding that this Court had jurisdiction to entertain an appeal under CJP § 12-301 where the action was, in substance, a common law mandamus action
• explaining that, when § 12-302 of the Courts and Judicial Proceeds Article was first enacted, the circuit court’s review of an agency decision was referred to as an exercise of “appellate jurisdiction”
• pointing out that judicial opinions and “numerous statutes, both state and local” have “improperly referred to such actions as ‘appeals’ ”
• considering the \substance\ of a cause of action in determining the application of the non-appealability rule of Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, § 12-302(a)
• holding the circuit court reviewing an adjudicatory decision of an agency or local legislative body “renders a final judgment within its jurisdiction, [CJP] § 12–302(a) is applicable, and an appeal to the Court of Special Appeals is not authorized by [CJP] § 12–301”
• a statute should not be interpreted so as to render any part of it meaningless, nugatory, or superfluous

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