 In 2008, Shurberg won a significant Court of Appeals decision on behalf of a Bethesda, Maryland teenager and her father, restoring the right of Maryland seventeen-year olds to vote in the primary elections if they will be of legal voting age by the time of the general election.As a result of Shurberg's work, the franchise was expanded to over 50,000 young Maryland voters.Less than a year after the case, there were over 12,000 17-year-old voters registered to vote in Maryland.