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Baltimore County approves transgender discrimination ban

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 22, 2012
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Baltimore County has become the fourth local government in the state to approve a measure protecting transgender people from discrimination.
The County Council approved the measure on Tuesday. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression and sexual orientation when it comes to housing, employment, public accommodations and financing.
Council members did not add [...]


Jury deliberations under way in murder case of former U.Va. lacrosse player

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 22, 2012
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jurors in the murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player began deliberating Wednesday whether he battered his ex-girlfriend to death in a drunken, jealous rage or if his intent to talk with her spiraled out of control, leaving her bleeding and dying in her bedroom.
The jury has been presented [...]


Prop. 8 backers seek review of gay marriage case

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 21, 2012
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SAN FRANCISCO — The backers of California’s same-sex marriage ban petitioned a federal appeals court Tuesday to review a split decision by three of its judges that struck down the voter-approved law known as Proposition 8.
Lawyers for the religious and legal groups that qualified the ban for the 2008 ballot had faced a Tuesday deadline [...]


NYPD monitoring Muslim students sparks outrage

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 21, 2012
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NEW YORK — New York City’s mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Monday over efforts by the city’s police department to monitor Muslim student groups.
The Associated Press revealed over the weekend that in recent years, the NYPD has kept close watch on Muslim student associations across the Northeast. The effort that [...]


Top court rules DNA preservation law not retroactive (access required)

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: February 21, 2012
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The Court of Appeals has ruled that the state law requiring the preservation of DNA evidence after conviction is not retroactive from when the bill was signed into law on Oct. 1, 2001.
Michael D. Washington-Bey had appealed his January 1990 rape conviction in Wicomico County Circuit Court. Washington-Bey claimed a law passed in 2001 requiring [...]


H. Russell Smouse: Exxon spill an ‘unfortunate accident?’ No, not hardly (access required)

BY: H. Russell Smouse
POSTED: February 21, 2012
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Once again, the massive 2006 gasoline spill in the Jacksonville area of Baltimore County is making headlines. Recently the Maryland Court of Special Appeals reversed a jury verdict in the first case to be tried against Exxon Mobil Corp. for unleashing 26,000 gallons of petroleum into the Jacksonville aquifer, the sole source of water for [...]


Lierman named to Red Line Citizens Advisory Council

BY: Wayne Countryman
POSTED: February 21, 2012
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Brooke Lierman, an associate at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, of Baltimore, has been appointed to the Red Line Citizens Advisory Council. The CAC is responsible for advising the Maryland Transportation Authority on impacts, opportunities, and community concerns about the Red Line surface rail.
Lierman clerked on Maryland’s federal district court for Chief Judges Benson Legg and [...]


Company suing Apple over iPad name open to talks

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 21, 2012
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A boy plays with an iPad2 at an Apple Store in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. Apple's dispute over the iPad trademark deepened Monday, after the Chinese company that claims ownership of the name said it won a court ruling against sales of the popular tablet computer in China. Xie Xianghui, a lawyer for Shenzhen Proview Technology, said the Intermediate People's Court in Huizhou, a city in southern China's Guangdong province, had ruled on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, that distributors should stop selling iPads in China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

SHANGHAI — The lawyer for a Chinese company suing Apple Inc. in China over its use of the iPad trademark indicated Tuesday that his client would be willing to discuss a settlement.
Xie Xianghui, lawyer for Shenzhen Proview Technology, said that since no final decisions have been reached in various legal disputes over the issue, both [...]


Thomas P. Smith, retired judge, joins The McCammon Group

BY: Wayne Countryman
POSTED: February 21, 2012
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Thomas P. Smith

Thomas P. Smith, retired associate judge of Prince George’s Circuit Court, has joined The McCammon Group, a mediation, arbitration, facilitation, training, and consulting firm.
Before his 17 years of judicial service on the bench, Smith worked for the Public Defender’s Office as a panel attorney and as the county attorney.
 He was also a chair of the [...]


Benefit corporations spark interest and questions (access required)

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: February 20, 2012
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Kowfi Dorman-el, Ice Cream Artisan at Taharka Bros

In some ways, Taharka Brothers Ice Cream Corp. is like any small business with the goal of growing, making a profit and making it big — in its case, maybe even becoming the next Ben & Jerry’s.
While operating on a far smaller scale than the famed Vermont duo, Taharka Brothers shares its social-enterprise spirit in [...]


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