Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company

Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit abuse its discretion and so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for the exercise by the Supreme Court of its supervisory power when, by orders of the Clerk acting for the Court, it denied Bel Air Auto Auction Inc.’s motion for certification and motion for reconsideration of that denial and refused to certify to the Maryland Court of Appeals the novel questions of Maryland insurance contract law as to which no controlling Maryland appellate decision, constitutional provision, or statute existed and that would have been determinative of the questions in Bel Air’s appeal as well as the same questions in at least eight other nearly identical cases pending in Maryland state and federal courts.