Edward J. Levin: New law relates to IDOTs, refinancings

BY: Edward J. Levin
POSTED: May 17, 2013
Tags: breaking news, edward j. levin, idot, Law, law news, legal commentary, maryland, State Department of Assessments and Taxation

Recent Maryland legislation will change the law affecting indemnity mortgages and indemnity deeds of trust (“IDOTs”) as well as refinancings in this state generally. Effective July 1, the new law raises the size of loan transactions involving IDOTs which are taxable when they are recorded from $1 million to $3 million, and it changes the way refinancings in Maryland are taxed.

Senate committee hears debate over contributory negligence legislation

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: March 19, 2013
Tags: contributory negligence, General Assembly, Law, law news, legal news, maryland, Maryland Chamber of Commerce, senate, senate judicial proceedings comittee

Business lobbyists and plaintiffs’ attorneys battled before a Senate committee Tuesday over legislation that would codify Maryland’s longstanding court-made law that defendants cannot be held liable for damages if the plaintiffs’ negligence contributed at all to their injuries.

Attorney general urges court to reconsider decision in tax case

BY: Barbara Grzincic
POSTED: March 4, 2013
Tags: Attorney General, doug gansler, income tax, law news, lawsuit, legal news, maryland, Maryland State Comptroller v. Wynne, Supreme Court

The Maryland Attorney General’s office is threatening a Supreme Court fight if the state’s top court does not reconsider its ruling in a recent income tax case.

Suit: Deal was just too funky

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: February 21, 2013
Tags: garry marshall shider, greenbelt, Law, law news, lawsuit, legal news, parliament funkadelic, Settlement, u..s district court

As a member of the legendary funk band Parliament Funkadelic, Garry Marshall Shider — known professionally as “Diaper Man” for the loincloth he wore on stage — penned nearly 400 songs and sold millions of recordings before his death in 2010. But his widow says his business dealings with a music publishing company left him “destitute and desperately in need of money,” and she wants the company to pay up.

Law movers – 11/19/12

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: November 18, 2012
Tags: law movers, law news, legal news, maryland

David B. Rudow, member of Baltimore’s Adelberg, Rudow, Dorf & Hendler LLC has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2013 Baltimore Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year. Best Lawyers is known as the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as a Lawyer of the Year. Rudow also was included in the tax law and trusts and estates sections of The Best Lawyers in America.

Opinions – 9/24/12: Maryland Court of Special Appeals

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: September 23, 2012
Tags: court of special appeals, law digest, law news, legal news, maryland, opinions

Criminal Procedure Criteria for continuance BOTTOM LINE: The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s continuance to obtain exculpatory evidence, because defendant did not meet his burden to show that he satisfied the criteria set forth in Jackson v. State, 214 Md. 454, 459 (1957). CASE: Davis v. State, No. 953, September [...]

Opinions – 9/24/12: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: September 23, 2012
Tags: 4th u.s. circuit court of appeals, law new, law news, legal news, maryland

Administrative Law Civil commitment BOTTOM LINE: District court erred in rejecting government’s petition to commit defendant as “sexually dangerous person” under civil commitment provision of child protection statute, because record contained substantial evidence showing that defendant still had intense and recurrent sexual fantasies about children, and district court’s conclusion that defendant did not still suffer [...]