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WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE v. DEPT. OF AG.

No. 87, September Term, 2013.

96 A.3d 105 (2014)

439 Md. 262

WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE, INC., et al. v. MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 18, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tarah Heinzen (Leah Kelly, Environmental Integrity Project, Washington, DC), on brief, for Petitioners.

Kevin P. Lee, Esq., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae brief of Sierra Club in support of Petitioners Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc.

Thomas F. Filbert, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Craig A. Nielsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondents.

Margaret M. Witherup (Gordon Feinblatt, LLC, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondents.

Argued before BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, ADKINS, LAWRENCE F. RODOWSKY (Retired, Specially Assigned) and IRMA S. RAKER (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

HARRELL, J.

"There's many a slip `twixt' the cup and the lip." — Old English proverb

Although the parties have spent considerable time presenting, for our benefit, the substantive law pertaining to the merits of the case, none ensured that the procedural posture of the appeal was proper. For the forthcoming reasons, this Court must dismiss the present appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

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