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.

Unresolved judgment lien costs lawyer $176K 

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: November 18, 2012
Tags: Baltimore County, Bryan A. Levitt, judgment, lawyer, lien, pikesville

A Baltimore County jury has awarded damages of more than $176,000 against a longtime Pikesville lawyer who erroneously assured a client that a judgment lien on his Howard County home had been discharged in bankruptcy.

Vendor’s win adds $229K to original Grand Prix’s tab 

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: July 22, 2012
Tags: B&K Rentals and Sales Co. Inc., Baltimore, baltimore city circuit court, Baltimore Racing Development LLC, Grand Prix, Judge W. Michel Pierson, judgment, lawsuit, Select Rental Corp., State of Maryland, Summary judgment, Sunrise Safety Services, tab

The owner of a Glen Burnie company shorted last year by the previous organizers of the Baltimore Grand Prix secured a $229,609 judgment against Baltimore Racing Development LLC.

Henson hit with $1M judgment 

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: May 29, 2012
Tags: Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, judge catherine c. blake, judgment, julius henson, lawsuit, maryland, Paul E. Schurick, Rhonda Russel, robocall, Settlement, Summary judgment, trial, U.S. District Court in Baltimore, universal elections, voter supression

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Universal Elections and its owner, Julius Henson, to pay a total of $1 million to the state for violating federal law by sending recorded telephone messages to more than 112,000 Democrats in Baltimore city and Prince George’s County on Election Day 2010 saying they should “relax” because the Democrats [...]

4th Circuit affirms $1.7M verdict under Land Sales Act 

BY: Lawyers USA
POSTED: May 6, 2012
Tags: 4th u.s. circuit court of appeals, Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act, judgment, land sales act, LLC, Nahigian v. Juno-Loudoun

The purchasers of a lot in an upscale real estate development had three years to exercise their rescission rights under federal law imposing disclosure requirements in interstate land sales, the 4th Circuit U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held. The May 1 decision affirms a judgment for $1.7 million, the amount the plaintiff/appellees paid to [...]

Judges seem wary of overruling tobacco judgment

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 20, 2012
Tags: cigarette labels, graphic warnings, judgment, overrule, tobacco, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler, washington

WASHINGTON — A bid by tobacco companies to overrule a court judgment that they must do corrective advertising about the dangers of smoking received a chilly response from a federal appeals court Friday. The companies want U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler’s order overturned because a 2009 law gave the Food and Drug Administration authority over [...]

CSA affirms $14.4M judgment for Choice Hotels

BY: Barbara Grzincic
POSTED: March 11, 2012
Tags: choice hotels, court of special appeals, judgment, lawsuit, maryland, PLC Partners LLC, Sam Klein, silver spring

A Montgomery County judge was under no obligation to grant a stay of proceedings to allow a litigant to change lawyers for a fourth time, the Court of Special Appeals held. Last week’s decision affirmed a $14.4 million judgment against PLC Partners LLC and Sam Klein in favor of Silver Spring-based Choice Hotels International Inc. [...]

Farm Bureau seeks summary judgment in bay suit against EPA

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: agriculture, American Farm Bureau Federation, chesapeake bay, environmental protection agency, EPA, judgment, pollution, restoration, u..s district court

The American Farm Bureau Federation is asking a federal judge to toss out the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay restoration strategy before its suit challenging the effort goes to trial. The federation filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania seeking summary judgment in its favor, arguing the EPA has overstepped its authority [...]

Housing authority asks court to block property seizures

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: January 13, 2012
Tags: antonio fulgham, baltimore city sheriff, bobcat, brittany mccutcheon, cars, Cheron Porter, david f. albright, housing authority of baltimore city, judgment, judgments, lawsuit, lead paint, seizure, settlements

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City on Friday filed a motion to stop the seizure of trucks and other property to pay for damages in a lead paint case. The HABC’s motion, filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court, seeks to quash any potential sale of property to pay a $2.6 million judgment awarded in 2010 [...]

Medical malpractice verdict favors former housekeeper 

BY: Barbara Grzincic and Steve Lash
POSTED: October 2, 2011
Tags: artery, dissected artery, housekeeper, Insurance, judgment, jury, lawsuit, med-mal, medical malpractice, Montgomery County, surgeon, terry lee mender, thrombosis, verdict

A Montgomery County jury has awarded more than $730,000 to a woman whose surgeon used a 7-centimeter instrument for endoscopic surgery on a 4-centimeter artery. The damage caused by the procedure left Terry Lee Mender with a dissected artery, nerve damage and leg thrombosis that cost her her job and, with it, her insurance. “You [...]

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