· 9/10/2002
Hargrove v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
Citations
- 807 A.2d 149
- 146 Md. App. 457
- 2002 Md. App. LEXIS 155
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- recognizing that “good cause is a test ‘of ordinary prudence, that is, whether the claimant prosecuted his claim with that degree of diligence that an ordinarily prudent person would have exercised under the same or similar circumstances’ ”
- “ ‘[T]ypically, a plaintiff must notify the municipality to be sued, and indeed plead notification in the complaint, in compliance with § 5—404’ ” 11 of the LGTCA
- Maryland has rejected ignorance of the law as good cause for late filing under public tort claims acts
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Eyler, Greene, Karwacki
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