Opinion
Filed: December 8, 2003
RULES ORDER
This Court's Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure having submitted its One Hundred Fifty-Second Report to the Court recommending thereby certain proposed new rules and proposed amendments to certain existing rules and forms, all as set forth in that Report published in the Maryland Register, Vol. 30, Issue 17, pages 1118 — 1199 (August 22, 2003); and
This Court by Rules Order filed November 12, 2003, having adopted, with certain amendments made on the Court's own motion, rejected, or remanded to the Rules Committee the rules changes proposed in the One Hundred Fifty-Second Report, except the proposed amendments to Rules 2-415, 2-419, 2-501, and 4-261, consideration of which was deferred pending further study; and
This Court having considered at an open meeting, notice of which was posted as prescribed by law, the deferred proposed rules changes, together with the comments received, and making certain amendments and additions to the proposed rules changes on its own motion, it is this 8th day of December, 2003,
ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that the amendments to Rules 1-324, 2-411, 2-415, 2-419, and 2-501 be, and they are hereby, adopted in the form attached to this Order; and it is further
ORDERED that the amendment to Rule 4-261 be, and it is hereby, adopted in the form previously published; and it is further
ORDERED that the rules changes hereby adopted by this Court shall govern the courts of this State and all parties and their attorneys in all actions and proceedings, and shall take effect and apply to all actions commenced on or after the 1st day of July, 2004, and insofar as practicable, to all actions then pending; and it is further
ORDERED that a copy of this Order be published in the next issue of the Maryland Register.