The court reversed the dismissal of claims arising from H & R Block's Refund Anticipation Loan program. It held that the allegations could support a factual finding that H & R Block acted as its customers' agent, creating a fiduciary duty to disclose its financial interests in the loans.
Supreme Court of Maryland, 1999
Published opinions from 1999. The case name opens the case page.
1999 opinions
MarylandBoard of Physician Quality Assurance v. Lester H. Banks; Lester H. Banks v. Board of Physician Quality Assurance
May 12, 1999354 Md. 59
The court held that the Board could reasonably find that a hospital physician’s sexual harassment of coworkers while on duty in hospital work areas constituted immoral or unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine.
The court held that Officer DiPino lacked probable cause to believe Davis committed the common-law offense of hindering, because there was no evidence that she and the other officer were performing a police duty when Davis identified them or that his remark actually obstructed their work.
The court held that the mortgage’s partial-release formula was unambiguous when read objectively: the release amount depended on the number of recorded subdivided residential building lots, not on the acreage of the particular parcel.