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Opinions – 2/6/12: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 5, 2012
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Administrative Law Civil commitment BOTTOM LINE: The U.S. District Court did not err in finding that the government failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that defendant was “a sexually dangerous person,”; the court reasonably found one expert’s opinion to be more credible than the others offered as to whether defendant would have serious [...]

Law digest: 2/6/12 (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 5, 2012
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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Commercial Law, Secondary Mortgage Loan Law: The Secondary Mortgage Loan Law does not restrict a mortgage lender to a single loan origination fee, as long as the aggregate fees charged and collected do not exceed the statutory maximum set forth in CL §12–405 and lenders are only required by the SMLL [...]

Opinions – 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 6/20/11 (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 18, 2011
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Civil Rights Reasonableness of use of force BOTTOM LINE: In lawsuit against police officers arising from the officer’s execution of a search warrant, district court did not abuse its discretion by failing to give plaintiffs’ requested jury instructions because, reviewed in their entirety, the jury instructions issued by the court made clear that the reasonableness [...]

4th Circuit upholds civil commitment

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: December 7, 2010
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RICHMOND, Va. — A law allowing the indefinite confinement of “sexually dangerous” federal inmates after their prison terms end does not violate their due process rights, an appeals court has ruled. The unanimous ruling Monday by a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision striking down the [...]

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