Maryland Overpak Corporation v. Mayor of Baltimore

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• quoting Kushell v. Dep’t of Natural Res., 385 Md. 563, 576, 870 A.2d 186, 193 (2005)
• “proceedings or acts that scrutinize individual parcels or assemblages for the consideration of property-specific proposed uses, at the owner’s or developer’s initiative, ordinarily suggest a quasi-judicial process or act”
• “proceedings or acts that scrutinize individual parcels or assemblages for the consideration of property-specific proposed uses, at the owner’s or developer’s initiative, ordinarily suggest a quasi-judicial process or act”
• A decision by the Baltimore City Council to amend the design and density of a mixed-use PUD was quasi-judicial, as opposed to legislative, in nature.
• The purpose of Article III § 29 “is to inform the members of the General Assembly and the public of the nature of the proposed legislation.”
• also commenting that the terms “quasi-judicial” and “administrative adjudication” are synonymous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).