In recent years, Maryland’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, has bent over backwards to be pro-consumer, at the expense of what statutes expressly say and years of business practice.
Why was everyone caught so flat- footed when the Supreme Court of The United States ruled on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act? No one saw it coming: the mandate to purchase insurance was held to be constitutional as a legitimate exercise of Congress’s power to tax.