Piper v. Meade & Assocs., Inc.

ROGER W. TITUS, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

1. The Consequences of Lessons Not Learned

This is a case that could aptly be described as the tale of "the horse that was led to water, but would not drink." Our respected State colleague, the late Chief Judge Richard Gilbert of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, aptly noted that procedural rules are "the lawyer's compass and serve to help him steer through the narrows of pleading, pass the rocks of default, around the shoals of limitation and safely into the harbor of judgment. It is a reckless sailor, indeed, who puts to sea without a…