RHANEY v. UMES

No. 118, September Term, 2004.

880 A.2d 357 (2005)

388 Md. 585

Anthony F. RHANEY, Jr. v. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest I. Cornbrooks, III (Webb, Burnett, Jackson, Cornbrooks, Wilber, Vorhis, Douse & Mason, LLP, Salisbury, on brief), for petitioner/cross-respondent.

Jessica V. Carter, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for respondent/cross-petitioner.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.


HARRELL, J.

A damaged fishtank, a sucker punch from its owner, and the resultant broken jaw prompted this litigation initiated by Anthony F. Rhaney, Jr., a student at the time at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore ("UMES" or "University"). On 29 October 1998, Ennis Clark, another student enrolled at UMES, began moving his personal items from the randomly-assigned dormitory room that he shared with Rhaney into a different dormitory room. When Clark left the room...

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