Maryland Joins Most Other States in How It Names Its Courts

By practically 75%-25%, Maryland voters accredited a constitutional modification that renames the “Maryland Courtroom of Appeals” to “Maryland Supreme Courtroom” (because it’s the very best courtroom within the state), and the “Maryland Courtroom of Particular Appeals” to “Maryland Appellate Courtroom” (since it is the intermediate appellate courtroom).

I do know of no plans for New York to vary its method, which has precipitated a lot confusion. West Virginia calls its excessive courtroom the courtroom the “Supreme Courtroom of Appeals”; Maine and Massachusetts name theirs the “Supreme Judicial Courtroom”; and Texas and Oklahoma have a “Supreme Courtroom” that is the very best courtroom for civil circumstances and a “Courtroom of Felony Appeals” that is the very best courtroom for legal circumstances.

No phrase on whether or not there are plans to dye Maryland judicial robes the extra acquainted black, as an alternative of this:

Because of Michael Rosman for the pointer.

UPDATE: @JackGFla factors out that I am behind the instances—West Virginia now has an Intermediate Courtroom of Appeals, which was licensed in 2021. Word, although, that the Supreme Courtroom of Appeals net web page appears to be additionally behind the instances, nonetheless saying that “West Virginia is certainly one of solely 9 jurisdictions with a single appellate courtroom” (except I am misinterpreting that line).