Rule 2-535.Revisory power

Rule 2-535 covers four distinct ways a judgment can come back before the court that entered it. Under the general revisory power in section (a), any party can move within 30 days after judgment to have the court reconsider it, and if the case was tried without a jury, the court can do anything it could have done under Rule 2-534. Section (c) offers a narrower path for newly-discovered evidence: a party who couldn't have found the evidence through due diligence in time to file a Rule 2-533 new trial motion can still move within 30 days of judgment for a new trial on that ground. Section (d) handles clerical mistakes in judgments, orders, or the record — the court can fix those on its own or on motion, at any time, with whatever notice the court orders. During a pending appeal, clerical corrections can be made freely before the case is docketed in the appellate court, and only with that court's permission afterward.

Section (b) stands apart because it carries no deadline at all: a party can move at any time to have the court exercise its revisory power over a judgment obtained through fraud, mistake, or irregularity. A Committee note ties this section to Code, Courts Article § 6-408, meaning the rule is meant to reach at least as far as that statute does. This is Maryland's principal tool for undoing a judgment tainted by misconduct or a serious procedural defect that an ordinary appeal wouldn't reach — the state's counterpart to relief-from-judgment practice elsewhere. A separate Committee note directs courts weighing a motion to vacate based on a party's failure to appear to consider relevant emergency circumstances the moving party puts forward — things like a lack of transportation, no access to a remote-hearing platform, a government stay-at-home or quarantine order, or a medically verifiable immunocompromised status in the party's household.