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Court of Appeals orders new lead-paint trial (access required)

Posted: 7:04 pm Mon, May 23, 2011
By Steve Lash
Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer

The judge presiding over a lead-paint poisoning trial should not have told the jury that the tenant had a duty to keep the property “in a clean and sanitary condition,” Maryland’s highest court held Monday. The Court of Appeals ordered a new trial on Janay Barksdale’s claims that she suffered brain damage from cracking lead-based paint ...

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