Lawrence N. Brandt, Inc. v. Montgomery County Commission on Landlord-Tenant Affairs

This appeal is another episode in the life — now legislatively extinguished — of the Montgomery County rent control law. * 1 Here, a landlord was rejected in its bid for an “Extraordinary Rent Increase.” A subsequent statutory appeal to the circuit court was unavailing, as were a request for a hearing en banc and a motion to revise judgment. The landlord then sought a rehearing before the administrative agency which the latter denied. Unbowed, the landlord then pursued an action in the circuit court for a declaratory judgment, and was again rebuffed. From the lower court’s adverse…