U.S. Judge Titus to take senior status in 2014

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: January 9, 2013
Tags: court, judge, Judge Roger W. Titus, sen. barbara mikulski, sen. ben cardin, senate, u..s district court

U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus of Greenbelt will step down from active service next January, the jurist stated in letters to President Barack Obama and Maryland’s two U.S. senators dated Tuesday.

Disbarred lawyer facing federal contempt charge

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: July 8, 2012
Tags: contempt, disbarred, judge catherine blake, Judge Roger W. Titus, lawyer, Laytonville, maryland, maryland court of appeals, Ralph T. Byrd, U.S. District Court in Greenbelt

A disbarred Laytonville lawyer now faces a federal criminal contempt charge and a $15,000 fine for repeatedly failing up to show for hearings in a lawsuit he filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt.

Garden center settles ADA claim for $50K

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: July 1, 2012
Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act, EEOC V. HOMESTEAD GARDENS INC., Homestead Gardens, Judge Roger W. Titus, Richard Starkey, u..s district court, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, violation

A Hyattsville-based farm and nursery will pay $50,000 to a former employee who was fired after the company discovered he has hemophilia. Homestead Gardens Inc. said it would pay Richard Starkey as part of a larger settlement of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s claim that the company had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. [...]

Rockville biotech company awarded $22.8M

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: August 28, 2011
Tags: award, conspiracy, CytImmune Sciences Inc., Fischer Investment Group, greenbelt, Judge Roger W. Titus, judgment, lawsuit, maryland, misrepresentation, U.S. District Court

A Rockville pharmaceutical biotechnology company has been awarded a $22.8 million default judgment against a Swiss consulting firm it hired to help it raise cash in foreign markets for its cancer-fighting therapy. CytImmune Sciences Inc. filed the lawsuit on Jan. 28 in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt against Fischer Investment Group Holding AG over the [...]

Adventist group gets fee award of $872K

BY: Brendan Kearney
POSTED: March 27, 2011
Tags: 4th u.s. circuit court of appeals, Baltimore, Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, Judge Roger W. Titus, maryland, Reaching Hearts International Inc., Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, Seventh-day Adventist, U.S. District Court, verdict, Ward B. Coe III

Almost three years after Reaching Hearts International Inc. won a $3.7 million jury verdict against Prince George’s County for religious discrimination, the Seventh-day Adventist group scored another victory last week when it was awarded nearly $900,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs. After staying the case while it was on appeal, Judge Roger W. Titus, who [...]

Indictment dismissed against lawyer in FDA probe

BY: Danielle Ulman
POSTED: March 24, 2011
Tags: glaxosmithkline, indictment, Judge Roger W. Titus, King & Spalding, Lauren Stevens, U.S. District Court, U.S. Food & Drug Administration

A federal judge in Greenbelt has thrown out the indictment of a former GlaxoSmithKline attorney after finding prosecutors inadvertently misinformed the grand jury on a key point of law. U.S. District Judge Roger Titus set an April 26 trial date in Greenbelt for the lawyer, Lauren Stevens, on the condition that the government can secure [...]