Opinions – 5/21/12: Maryland Court of Appeals 
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: civil procedure, Court of Appeals, Law, maryland, opinions
Civil Procedure Res judicata BOTTOM LINE: Once original plaintiffs’ claims had been litigated, a subsequent action by their adult children, raising the same claims, was barred by res judicata because the children were in privity with the parties to the earlier litigation. CASE: Cochran v. Griffith Energy Services, Inc., No. 87 September Term, 2011 (filed [...]
Opinions – 5/21/12: Maryland Court of Special Appeals
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: administrative law, child neglect, court of special appeals, maryland, opinions
Administrative Law Child neglect BOTTOM LINE: Although there was no gap in custody between the time a disabled teenager’s caregivers refused to let him return home from school and the time the Department of Social Services placed him in foster care, the administrative law judge was legally incorrect in ruling that the child was never [...]
Edward J. Levin: The end of the road for IDOTS?
BY: Edward J. Levin
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: easement, idots, Maryland Attorney General, Maryland General Assembly, real property, special session, State and Local Revenue and Financing Act, Tax-Property Article of the Maryland Code
Buried in one of the budget bills that was enacted during the recent Special Session of the Maryland General Assembly is a measure of significant importance to real estate developers, borrowers, and lenders. The State and Local Revenue and Financing Act of 2012 (SLRFA) amends Section 12-105(f) of the Tax-Property Article of the Maryland Code [...]
DNA-on-arrest case heads to high court
BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: arrest, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, Baltimore, case, Court of Appeals, dna, judge alan m. wilner, king v. maryland, maryland department of public safety and correctional services, police, u.s. supreme court
With Thursday’s mandate looming and Maryland’s top court holding fast to its decision that collection of DNA on arrest is almost always unconstitutional, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler’s next step was expected to be a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. Instead, Gansler will first ask the high court to issue a stay, blocking the [...]
Law digest: 5/21/12
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: 4th u.s. circuit court of appeals, Court of Appeals, court of special appeals, law digest, maryland
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Civil Procedure, Res judicata: Once original plaintiffs’ claims had been litigated, a subsequent action by their adult children, raising the same claims, was barred by res judicata because the children were in privity with the parties to the earlier litigation. Cochran v. Griffith Energy Services, Inc., No. 87 September Term, 2011. [...]
Injured cyclist settles $1M product liability suit
BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: cyclist, Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc., injured, lawsuit, maryland, Raleigh America Inc., Spinner Industry Co. Ltd., U.S. District Court in Baltimore, WINDSOR ET AL. V. DICK’S SPORTING GOODS INC. ET AL.
Sporting-goods manufacturers and a retailer have settled a $1 million lawsuit by a Columbia father who suffered a broken jaw and other serious facial injuries when the front tire of his bicycle came loose, throwing him and the toddler son he was toting to the sidewalk. Robert Windsor Jr. had sued Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc., [...]
FreeState hopes to step up outreach, double its services to Md.’s low-income LGBT community
BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, Baltimore, bisexual, community, discrimination, FreeState Legal Project, gay, gay marriage, general assemblyu, Law, Lee Ann Hopkins, legal, legislation, lesbian, lgbt, low income, maryland, same-sex marriage, support, transgender
Lee Ann Hopkins spends each day in a tiny brick-walled office crammed with books and fliers on FreeState Legal Project, of which she is the executive director — and only employee. “I wear all the hats,” Hopkins said. “I am the executive director, the intake coordinator, case manager, trainer, outreach coordinator, volunteer coordinator, attorney recruiter [...]
Opinions – 5/21/12: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: 4th u.s. circuit court of appeals, administrative law, maryland, Medicare coverage, opinions
Administrative Law Medicare coverage BOTTOM LINE: Secretary of Health and Human Services properly used the adjudicative process to create a policy denying Medicare coverage for medical device. CASE: Almy v. Sebelius, No. 10-2241 (filed April 26, 2012) (Judges WILKINSON, Gregory & Keenan). RecordFax No. 12-0426-60, 25 pages. COUNSEL: Robert Lloyd Roth, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, [...]
Law movers – 5/21/12: Roberge joins Rockville firm
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: Jane Frankel Sims, law movers, lawyer, maryland, Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, Montgomery County, William H. Roberge Jr.
Roberge joins Rockville firm William H. Roberge Jr. has joined Stein Sperling Bennett De Jong Driscoll PC, one of suburban Maryland’s largest full-service law firms, as Of Counsel. His addition caps a two-year period of substantial growth in the firm’s estates and trusts practice, which has doubled in size since 2010. Roberge, who has practiced [...]
Pa. Supreme Court justice says she is not guilty of corruption
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 18, 2012
Tags: campaign, chief justice ronald castille, corruption, crime, justice joan orie melvin, pennsylvania supreme court, prosecutors, sen. jane orie
Comments: 1
PITTSBURGH — State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin says she is not guilty of campaign corruption charges connected to her bids for a seat on the high court. Melvin did not enter a plea at a hearing Friday. But she said she intends to vigorously defend herself against what she says are politically motivated [...]
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