Luskin's Inc. v. Consumer Protection Division

KARWACKI, Judge.

We issued a writ of certiorari in this case to consider whether the Circuit Court for Harford County erred in failing to dismiss a declaratory judgment action, otherwise properly before the court, because a state administrative agency had concurrent jurisdiction in the matter, and the case involved subject matter questions in the area of the agency’s expertise. We shall hold that it did.

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During the summer of 1992, Luskin’s, Inc. ran newspaper and television advertisements (the past advertisements) in Maryland offering customers free airfare for two to various locations if the…