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Edward J. Levin: New law relates to IDOTs, refinancings (access required)

BY: Edward J. Levin
POSTED: May 17, 2013
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Recent Maryland legislation will change the law affecting indemnity mortgages and indemnity deeds of trust (“IDOTs”) as well as refinancings in this state generally. Effective July 1, the new law raises the size of loan transactions involving IDOTs which are taxable when they are recorded from $1 million to $3 million, and it changes the way refinancings in Maryland are taxed.

Criminal background checks: Can they get your business in trouble? (access required)

BY: Andrea Leahy-Fucheck and Jason Baum
POSTED: May 12, 2013
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As a result of the increasing number of individuals who come into contact with the criminal justice system, a growing number of businesses and government entities are conducting criminal background checks on potential and existing employees. But governments are also putting restrictions in place on what at times can be used or perceived as a discriminatory practice.

Jack Gohn: The Torture Report – We need names, consequences (access required)

BY: Jack L.B. Gohn
POSTED: May 7, 2013
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Ordinarily, when this column turns to things our government has done wrong, out of respect as much as anything else, it lays out the facts in some detail. This time, I’m sick of facts; I have waded through most of the 600-page report of the Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment, in particular the parts that had to do with torture.

Joe Surkiewicz: Leave your footprint on the Poor People’s March (access required)

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: May 3, 2013
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Still fuming over the media hoopla that surrounded the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library? (Wouldn’t, say, a mini-golf course be more appropriate for a guy famous for not reading books?)

William Hodes: Ethics 20/20 commission tweaks the Model Rules (access required)

BY: William Hodes
POSTED: April 28, 2013
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Since the Model Rules of Professional Conduct were first promulgated by the American Bar Association in 1983, they have been amended several times on an issue-by-issue basis, and the ABA has twice undertaken a more global overhaul.

Steven I. Platt: Federal ‘rules’ hamper democratic governance (access required)

BY: Steven I. Platt
POSTED: April 25, 2013
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The month of April has at best been a month during which events have generated serious questions about our federal government’s ability to protect its citizens, as well as its ability to institutionally respect and respond to the will of the huge majority of the people officials were elected to represent.

Steven I. Platt: In counterterrorism, what role should judiciary play?

BY: Steven I. Platt
POSTED: April 11, 2013
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As the American spring of 2013 unfolds, there are plenty of local, state, national and international political and legal issues to occupy the interest of those of us who enjoy or are even addicted to reading and writing about them.

Editorial Advisory Board: An extraordinary case of justice delayed (access required)

BY: Editorial Advisory Board
POSTED: April 9, 2013
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In late 2004, Mr. Jaron Tyree Grade was convicted of a double homicide and sentenced to two life terms. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed, and Grade’s case was argued before the Court of Appeals of Maryland on Oct. 3, 2007.

Kenneth W. Ravenell: Death penalty repeal a win for Maryland (access required)

BY: Kenneth W. Ravenell
POSTED: March 25, 2013
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In my nearly 30-year career as a criminal defense lawyer, I’ve represented clients charged with murder, racketeering, money laundering, sexual abuse, drug dealing — you name it. But I have never participated in a case where there was the possibility of capital punishment. Not once.

John Connolly: How to represent yourself in the Court of Appeals (access required)

BY: John J. Connolly
POSTED: March 21, 2013
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If you can’t look away from a car wreck, you might have the same discomfiting attraction to webcasts of appellate arguments in attorney grievance matters.

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