Families sue lawyers over $36M verdict

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: April 4, 2013
Tags: breaking legal news, breaking news, D.C Superior Court, Hogan Lovells, Law, legal news, maryland, Montgomery County, verdicts and settlements

Two Montgomery County families are suing law firm Hogan Lovells for giving them bad legal advice during their dealings with a property developer, which ultimately ended in a $36 million verdict against them.

CSA overturns finding in attempted murder case, orders new hearing

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: April 1, 2013
Tags: attempted murder, breaking legal news, court of special appeals, judgment, Law, legal news, maryland, overturned

A teenager is entitled to a new delinquency trial on attempted murder charges because he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel following his indictment.

After conviction, judge orders new trial in Barnes murder

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: March 20, 2013
Tags: baltimore city circuit court, breaking legal news, breaking news, Law, legal news, michael maurice johnson, Phylicia Barnes, trial

Michael Maurice Johnson, the man convicted last month of murdering North Carolina teenager Phylicia Barnes, has been granted a new trial.

Law digest: 10/1/12

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: September 30, 2012
Tags: breaking legal news, Court of Appeals, law digest, legal opinions, maryland

Court of Appeals Administrative Law, Suspension of driver’s license: Where a driver agreed to take a breathalyzer test but performed it improperly seven times, the test technician’s certification that the driver refused to take the test, accompanied by a certification that the procedure had been explained to the driver and that he appeared to be [...]

Cullen hopes high court will draw line on appealing international custody disputes

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: September 30, 2012
Tags: 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, breaking legal news, custody, disputes, international, Law, Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Stephen J. Cullen, Supreme Court

During the term that’s about to open, the Supreme Court will consider whether an international treaty and U.S. law prevent an American father from appealing a U.S. court’s order that allowed his ex-wife to take their daughter to Scotland, after the pair have already left the country.

James L. Thompson: Judging judges – a new opportunity for the trial bar

BY: James L. Thompson
POSTED: September 30, 2012
Tags: breaking legal news, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, column, James L. Thompson, Judges, Law, lawyer, maryland, Maryland State Bar Association

Recently, I became aware of a website called “TheRobingRoom.com.” I had been retained as co-counsel in litigation pending in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland. My co-counsel, from out of state, asked me about the judge to whom the case had been specially assigned.

Top court orders new trial for soda vendor

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: September 30, 2012
Tags: Allan Sosslau Law Office, breaking legal news, Court of Appeals, Law, maryland, mccarthy wilson llp, Robert B. Hetherington, rockville, S&S Oil Inc., soda, vendor, William L. Kohler
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The Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial and overturned a $140,000 verdict for a woman who slipped and injured herself in a gas-station store owned by S&S Oil Inc.

PNC wins fight over trust-fund distribution

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: breaking legal news, Court of Appeals, distribution, Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, Law, losses, Marion W. Bevard, maryland, Maryland Tax-General Article, PNC, PNC Bank N.A., trust fund

Trustees may request that beneficiaries release them from liability as a condition of distributing trust funds, Maryland’s high court ruled Thursday.

$5M asbestos verdict upheld by Court of Special Appeals

BY: Barbara Grzincic
POSTED: September 26, 2012
Tags: asbestos, breaking legal news, court of special appeals, Georgia Pacific, Jocelyn Farrar, lawsuit, maryland, University of Maryland, upheld, verdict

The Court of Special Appeals has affirmed a $5 million judgment against Georgia Pacific Corp. in favor of a University of Maryland nursing professor who lost a lung to mesothelioma after inhaling asbestos fibers that stuck to her grandfather’s work clothes in the late 1960s.

Texas inmate prepares for 3rd trip to death house

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 23, 2012
Tags: breaking legal news, breaking news, Cleve Foster, court, death row, execution, Law, punishment, Supreme Court, texas, united states

LIVINGSTON, Texas — What Cleve Foster remembers most about his recent brushes with death is the steel door, the last one condemned Texas inmates typically walk through before their execution. “You can’t take your eyes off that door,” he says. But twice over the past year and a half, Foster has come within moments of [...]