CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUND. v. DCW DUTCHSHIP

No. 77, September Term, 2013.

97 A.3d 135 (2014)

439 Md. 588

CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION, INC. and Magothy River Association, Inc., et al. v. DCW DUTCHSHIP ISLAND, LLC, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 4, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon A. Mueller (Annapolis, MD), on brief, for Petitioners.

Paul J. Cucuzzella , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Rachel L. Eisenhauer , Asst. Atty. Gen., Douglas F. Gansler , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Petitioners.

Gregory J. Swain, Sr. Asst. Co. Atty. ( David A. Plymyer , Co. Atty., Annapolis, MD), on brief, for Respondents.

Robert J. Fuoco (Law Office of Robert J. Fuoco, Glen Burnie, MD; Warren Rich , Rich and Henderson, PC, Annapolis, MD), on brief, for Respondents.

Argued before BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD, WATTS, JJ.


ADKINS, J.

Roughly 35 million years ago, an asteroid over a mile wide crashed into the Earth at a speed of about 70,000 miles per hour. Hillary Mayell, Chesapeake Bay Crater Offers Clues to Ancient Cataclysm, National Geographic News, (November 13, 2001), http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/57998027.html. This collision created the Chesapeake Bay Crater. Id. One of the by-products of this celestial collision is the subject of this contest —...

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