Hearing set for man charged in documents theft

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 27, 2011
Tags: abraham lincoln, Barry Landau, district court, documents, historian, inaugural ball, Jason Savedoff, Maryland Historical Society, plea, theft

A presidential historian’s assistant accused of conspiring to steal valuable documents from archives throughout the Northeast is expected back in federal court. A re-arraignment is scheduled in U.S. District Court on Thursday for 24-year-old Jason Savedoff, which often indicates a defendant is changing his plea. Savedoff and historian Barry Landau are charged with stealing historical [...]

Opinions – 10/11/11: U.S. District Court 

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: October 10, 2011
Tags: allcarrier worldwide service, civil procedure, district court, maryland, personal jurisdiction, residents, U.S. District Court, UNEDA, united network equipment dealer association

Civil Procedure Personal jurisdiction BOTTOM LINE: District court did not have personal jurisdiction in a civil action against defendant membership organization, where organization’s only related business activity was operating a website used by members throughout the world, including some Maryland residents. CASE: Allcarrier Worldwide Services, Inc. v. United Network Equipment Dealer Association, Civil Action No. [...]

Opening statements given in Currie case

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 27, 2011
Tags: bribery, district court, extorition, false statement, Prince George's County, senator, shoppers, shoppers food warehouse, state senate, trial, ulysses s. currie

Federal prosecutors say a prominent state senator sold his office to help a grocery store chain, but the senator’s lawyers say he arranged meetings but did nothing illegal. Attorneys gave opening statements on Tuesday in a federal case in Baltimore against Sen. Ulysses Currie, a Prince George’s County Democrat. Prosecutors outlined conspiracy, bribery, extortion and [...]

Judges’ six-figure salaries too low, says commission

BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: September 11, 2011
Tags: annette funn, court of special appeals, district court, General Assembly, judge ben clyburn, Judicial Compensation Commission, lottery, Maryland State Bar Association
Comments: 1

Agreeing with judges themselves and the Maryland State Bar Association, the Judicial Compensation Commission vowed to recommend that the General Assembly give the state’s judges a raise. At their meeting Wednesday evening, members did not have any formal proposals for these raises. After hearing judges’ pleas for more money, however, their minds were made up. [...]

Ariz. governor asks high court to hear immigration law appeal

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: August 10, 2011
Tags: appeal, arizona, arizona gov. jan brewer, arizona immigration law, district court, immigration law, jan brewer, justice department, phoenix, u.s. supreme court

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer filed an appeal Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put on hold key parts of the state’s immigration enforcement law. The appeal comes as Brewer faced a deadline for contesting a district court’s decision that, among other things, barred police from enforcing a requirement [...]

Rockville’s district courthouse closes due to sewage leak 

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: August 3, 2011
Tags: chesapeake bay, chief judge bell, closure, construction, Department of General Services, district court, Judiciary spokeswoman Angelita Plemmer, rockville, seepage, sewer, Silver Spring District Court

Rockville’s district courthouse, which opened Monday after three years of construction at a cost of $65 million, was closed Wednesday due to seeping sewage nearby — apparently the result of the strain the new facility put on a blocked city pipe. Human waste began to seep through a manhole cover about 40 feet from the [...]

Kiefaber agrees to stay away from Senator for six more months 

BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: July 22, 2011
Tags: Buzz Cusack, Charles Theater, city council, district court, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, James "Buzz" Cusack, James Cusack, Judge Halee F. Weinstein, Kathleen C. Cusack, National Register of Historic Places, Richard H. Boucher Jr., Senator Theatre, station north, Thomas Kiefaber

The former owner of the Senator Theatre has agreed not to go near the historic movie house or the Charles Theater for six months in the wake of a threatening outburst July 14 just before the midnight show of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” at the Senator. Thomas Kiefaber, who is also [...]

Bernstein ends community liaison program 

BY: Brendan Kearney
POSTED: May 12, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, district court, gregg bernstein, layoffs, mark cheshire, Office of the State’s Attorney, states attorney

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein has dismantled the agency’s longstanding community liaison program, laying off seven of the nine liaisons as well as two members of the support staff. Bernstein was meeting individually with the affected employees Thursday afternoon, but his spokesman, who will inherit new duties as a result of the staff [...]

Md. woman charged with calling in bomb threat

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 15, 2011
Tags: bomb threat, district court, maryland, maryland state police, serena sue jones, westminster

WESTMINSTER — A Westminster woman has been charged with calling in a bomb threat to the Carroll County Emergency Operations Center. Maryland State Police say 30-year-old Serena Sue Jones called the emergency center Monday morning with a false report of a bomb in the Westminster courthouse. The call led authorities to evacuate and search the [...]

O’Malley nominates wife for second term as judge

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 18, 2011
Tags: Annapolis, Baltimore, baltimore district court judge, district court, gov. martin o'malley, green bag, judge catherine curran o'malley, maryland first lady, nomination, O'Malley, senate
Comments: 1

ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley is seeking a second term for the state’s First Lady as a district court judge. O’Malley formally nominated his wife, Judge Catherine Curran O’Malley, to a second term as a Baltimore District Court judge on Friday. Maryland’s First Lady has served as a judge since 2001. If approved by the [...]

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