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Law digest – 5/16/13 (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 15, 2013
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MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS  Administrative Law, Consent Order: Where physician agreed to be bound by the terms of the Consent Order suspending her license, in which she waived any right to contest the terms and to appeal and acknowledged that she understood the Consent Order’s meaning and effect, the Board of Physicians did not [...]


Opinions – 5/16/13: Maryland Court of Special Appeals (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 15, 2013
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Administrative Law Consent Order  BOTTOM LINE: Where physician agreed to be bound by the terms of the Consent Order suspending her license, in which she waived any right to contest the terms and to appeal and acknowledged that she understood the Consent Order’s meaning and effect, the Board of Physicians did not err in declining [...]


Angelos firm to get value of services in med-mal case (access required)

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: May 13, 2013
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Two law firms are battling over attorneys’ fees in a fraud and medical malpractice settlement involving former cardiologist Mark Midei and MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates.


Separation agreement to share railroad retirement benefits was void (access required)

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: May 9, 2013
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A Maryland man does not have to make payments to his ex-wife based upon his past and future receipt of retirement benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, a state appellate court has held in a case of first impression.


Five apply to replace Bell on Court of Appeals (access required)

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: May 2, 2013
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For Baltimore attorney M. Natalie McSherry, the possibility of serving on Maryland’s highest court was too good to pass up.


Opinions – 4/18/13: Maryland Court of Special Appeals (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 17, 2013
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Administrative Law Evidence at police trial board hearing  BOTTOM LINE: The police department, in a disciplinary proceeding of an officer, did not violate the rights of the officer by failing to disclose certain information regarding the FBI’s investigation of another officer, because such information was not exculpatory. CASE: Baltimore Police Department V. Ellsworth, No. 0005, [...]


Law digest – 4/11/13 (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 10, 2013
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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Administrative Law, Disability accommodation: In an action by residents alleging that their apartment complex denied them reasonable accommodation of their disabilities by refusing to provide them keys to side and back doors of their building, the burden of proof was on the defendant apartment complex to prove that providing the requested [...]


Opinions – 4/11/13: Court of Special Appeals (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 10, 2013
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Labor & Employment Age discrimination BOTTOM LINE: Defendant was entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff’s age discrimination claim, where defendant presented a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for its refusal to hire plaintiff and plaintiff failed to adduce sufficient evidence to meet his burden of establishing that defendant’s reasons were pretextual and that its motive was discriminatory. [...]


Here come the judges: Law adds 2 to CSA (access required)

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: April 9, 2013
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Maryland’s intermediate appellate court will grow by two judges under legislation Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law Tuesday.


Panel advances bill to limit right to public defender (access required)

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: April 4, 2013
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Over the objection of the Maryland public defender and civil rights advocates, the full Senate will soon consider legislation that would require defendants to reapply for free legal assistance after they either post bond or are released on their own recognizance pending trial.


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