Legal Opinion
Scott v. Watson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 13, 1976No. [Misc. No. 5, September Term, 1975.]PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMurphy, C. J.
This case has come to us from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, Maryland Code (1974) Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article, § 12-601 et seq.; that Act authorizes us to answer questions of state law certified by (among others) a United States District Court “which may be determinative of the cause then pending in the certifying court and as to which it appears . . . there is no controlling precedent in the Court of Appeals of this state.”
Plaintiff Evelyn Ann Scott originally brought suit in the Superior…
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