123 Md. App. 311 - Gruss v. Gruss’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “Generally. Except as otherwise provided in these rules or by order of court, every pleading and other paper filed after the original pleading shall be served upon each of the parties. Service upon the attorney or upon a party shall be made by delivery of a copy or by mailing it to the address most recently stated in a pleading or paper filed by the attorney or party, or if not stated, to the last known address. (Emphasis added.) In addition, Rule 1-324 provides, in part: Upon entry on the docket of any order or ruling of the court not made in the course of a hearing or trial, the clerk shall send a copy of the order or ruling to all parties entitled to service under Rule 1-321, unless the record discloses that such service has already been made. (Emphasis added.) Based on the language of these rules, we explained: The trial court was completely accurate in finding that Ms. Gruss had a continuing obligation to furnish the court with her most recent address. What the court failed to recognize, however, was that Ms. Gruss fully complied with that obligation by noting her changed address on her pleadings. According to Rule 1-321, the order of dismissal was to be mailed to Ms. Gruss at the address ‘most recently stated in a pleading or paper.’ Thus, as Ms. Gruss in her most recent pleading listed her address as 2907 Fallstaff Road, that is the address to which the clerk should have mailed a copy of the dismissal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 Md. App. 296 - ESTIME v. King

2. “Under our cases, an irregularity which will permit a court to exercise revisory powers over an enrolled judgment has been consistently defined as the doing or not doing of that, in the conduct of a suit at law, which, conformable to the practice of the court, ought or ought not to be done[.] As a consequence, irregularity, in the contemplation of the Rule, usually means irregularity of process or procedure, and not an error, which in legal parlance, generally connotes a departure from truth or accuracy of which a defendant had notice and could have challenged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 146 Md. App. 203 - Thacker v. Hale