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BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: breaking legal news, document, Law, maryland, Pfc. Bradley Manning, trial, united states, wikileaks
A federal judge has rejected requests from media organizations to order the same-day public release of potential-witness lists and documents related to the ongoing court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been charged with aiding the enemy by leaking classified U.S. diplomatic cables to the WikiLeaks website.
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BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: court of special appeals, decision, Law, legal news, marriage, maryland, prenuptual agreement
A Maryland appeals court has invalidated a prenuptial agreement that a woman signed 26 years ago while dealing with severe morning sickness and a threat by her fiancé — who had insisted she prove her fertility before marriage — that he would call off the wedding if she did not sign it immediately.
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BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: 4th u.s. circuit court of appeals, court of special appeals, law digest, legal news, maryland, opinions
MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS Labor & Employment, Retaliation: The evidence was legally sufficient to sustain plaintiff’s claim that defendant had constructively terminated her employment in retaliation for her report of a sex discrimination complaint made by a subordinate. Edgewood Management Corporation v. Jackson, No. 76, Sept. Term, 2012. RecordFax No, 13-0530-00, 60 pages. Torts, [...]
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BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: 4th u.s. circuit court of appeals, Law, legal news, maryland, opinions
Administrative Law Injunction against reduction of services BOTTOM LINE: Where the state’s health department chose to comply with a preliminary injunction requiring it to provide a hearing before terminating Medicaid benefits to the plaintiffs, the state subdivision that managed delivery of those services was barred from appealing the ruling both by the Medicaid statute and [...]
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BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: Court of Appeals, Law, legal digest, maryland, opinions
Labor & Employment Retaliation BOTTOM LINE: The evidence was legally sufficient to sustain plaintiff’s claim that defendant had constructively terminated her employment in retaliation for her report of a sex discrimination complaint made by a subordinate. CASE: Edgewood Management Corporation v. Jackson, No. 76, Sept. Term, 2012 (filed May 30, 2013) (Judges EYLER, D., Kehoe [...]
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: crime, Law, legal news, naval academy, rape, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, united states
ANNAPOLIS — The U.S. Naval Academy has announced charges against three football players accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman. The academy said Wednesday the students have been charged with making a false official statement as well as rape, sexual assault or other sexual misconduct. Cmdr. John Schofield says the case is still in the [...]
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: crime, navy, sen. barbara mikulski, sexual assault, U.S. Naval Academy
Sen. Barbara Mikulski has called on the nation’s defense secretary to increase oversight and accountability of military service academy superintendents in response to increasing rates of sexual assaults.
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: associated press, department of justice, Government, Law, legal news, subpoena
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department violated its own rules when it secretly seized records for thousands of phone calls to and from journalists for The Associated Press as part of a leak investigation, the head of the company said Wednesday. AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt told a luncheon gathering of journalists and others that [...]
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BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: CSX, derailment, Law, lawsuit, legal news, national transportation safety board, transportation
![]()  CSX is suing a garbage truck driver and his company for negligence in the explosive derailment of a freight train near Baltimore.
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: June 19, 2013 Tags: Government, gun laws, guns, Law, legal news, maryland
A new report finds that Maryland is among the top five states with the greatest number of guns federally licensed gun dealers reported lost or stolen last year. WBAL-AM reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms report found that Maryland ranks third in the nation with more than 880 guns lost and 98 [...]
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