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Yao Pone v. Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Maryland, No. 458, September Term, 2020 · judgment March 26, 2021


Certiorari denied · March 21, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

a. Were unjustifiable excessive fines (all of the maximum permit by the law) imposed by the Calvert County’s Planning and zoning employees to the Petitioner? b. Were these unjustifiable excessive fines a plot to bankrupt the Petitioner to lose his land? c. Were the Petitioner’s Constitutional Rights violated when the County tried him twice on the same offenses? d. Were the Petitioner’s Constitutional Rights violated when the County continued to impose fines while obstructing access to the zoning Board of Appeals which is the normal process of issues resolution within the County zoning and planning rules? e. Did the Circuit court and County government deny the Petitioner due process by ordering the Petitioner to do work and pay penalties, when the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible to do so? f. Did the local government violate the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the 25th article of the Maryland Constitution by imposing excessive and cruel fines which will force the Petitioner to have lien and lose his land because of the abuse of power, racial and discriminatory bias zoning stop work violations orchestrated by some of its employees?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Yao Pone

For respondent
John A. Mattingly Jr.
Office of the County Attorney

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 21 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 02 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/18/2022.
  3. Nov 15 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent Bd. of Cty. Commissioners to respond filed.
  4. Oct 22 2021
    Waiver of Bd. of Cty. Commissioners of right to respond not accepted for filing. (November 15, 2021)
  5. Sep 17 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 25, 2021)