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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 2001 / Former Justice

Lynne A. Battaglia

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Lynne A. Battaglia was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Battaglia authored 317 published opinions for the court (2001–2021), plus 42 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Barbre v. Pope (234 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 308 of these were attributed to Battaglia by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2007	Barbre v. Pope†	935 A.2d 699	234
2003	Cheek v. United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc.†	835 A.2d 656	148
2007	Haas v. Lockheed Martin Corp.· Dissent†	914 A.2d 735	143
2002	Walter v. Gunter†	788 A.2d 609	143
2006	Schisler v. State· Dissent†	907 A.2d 175	140
2004	Davis v. Slater	861 A.2d 78	132
2005	Rios v. Montgomery County†	872 A.2d 1	116
2008	Gourdine v. Crews†	955 A.2d 769	111
2004	Darcars Motors of Silver Spring, Inc. v. Borzym†	841 A.2d 828	108
2005	Beyond Systems, Inc. v. Realtime Gaming Holding Co., LLC†	878 A.2d 567	100
2010	Blondell v. Littlepage†	991 A.2d 80	99
2005	Attorney Grievance Commission v. Zuckerman†	872 A.2d 693	98
2004	Deville v. State· Dissent†	858 A.2d 484	97
2001	In Re Mark M.†	782 A.2d 332	96
2001	Fister v. Allstate Life Insurance Co.†	783 A.2d 194	90

Showing the 15 most-cited of 368 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Lynne A. Battaglia on?: Lynne A. Battaglia was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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25 years on the Supreme Court of Maryland. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).