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BY: Gardner Duvall
POSTED: December 9, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, Court of Appeals, doctor, Law, legal news, litigation, torts
![]()  The settlement of litigation is a common and important facet of the administration of justice. Unfortunately, a recent decision by the Court of Appeals casts doubt on the meaning and usefulness of an ordinary approach to settlement and release in Maryland.
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 28, 2012
Tags: Bank of America, class-action lawsuit, corporate governance, countrywide, financial crisis, kenneth lewis, lawsuit, lehman brothers, litigation, merrill lynch, misleading statements, Settlement, u..s district court
Comments: 1
WASHINGTON — Bank of America says it has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its acquisition of Merrill Lynch at the height of the financial crisis. In the lawsuit, shareholders alleged that Bank of America and some of its officers made false or misleading statements about both companies’ financial [...]
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BY: Dolan Media Newswire
POSTED: June 3, 2012
Tags: AMA’s Archives of Internal Medicine, American Medical Association, Dr. Anupam B. Jena of Harvard Medical School, litigation, med-mal lawsuit, medical malpractice, Outcomes of Medical Malpractice Litigation Against US Physicians
Almost 55 percent of all medical malpractice cases are dismissed and less than 5 percent make it to trial, according to a recent study published by the American Medical Association. Further, most of the cases that go to trial — 79.6 percent — “were judged in favor of the physician,” concludes the study, titled Outcomes [...]
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BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, bank, defamation, false advertising, First Mariner, fraudulent lending practices, injurious falsehood, Judge James K. Bredar, lawsuit, letter, litigation, Litigation Notification, maryland, The Resolution Law Group, tro, u..s district court
First Mariner Bank secured a 14-day restraining order against a Connecticut-based law firm that has been sending letters to the bank’s customers, stating that the bank is facing litigation and regulatory action for fraudulent lending practices. Judge James K. Bredar said on Thursday that he would enter the temporary restraining order against the letters due [...]
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BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: April 29, 2012
Tags: baltimore city circuit court, Brian S. Brown and Saul E. Kerpelman & Assoc. P.A., court of special appeals, lead paint, litigation, maryland, Maryland Code of Judicial Conduct, Saul E. Kerpelman
The Court of Special Appeals has rejected a law firm’s effort to force a Baltimore judge to recuse herself from all lead paint litigation in which it has clients. The motion was filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court in February 2011 by Saul E. Kerpelman, Brian S. Brown and Saul E. Kerpelman & Assoc. P.A. [...]
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BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: April 23, 2012
Tags: baltimore city council, baltimore development corp., Lexington Square Partners, litigation, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, payment in lieu of taxes, pilot, superblock, Taxes, westside initiative
![]()  A 20-year city property tax break for the developers of the $150 million Superblock development downtown was introduced in the City Council Monday night to provide an incentive city officials say is needed for the long-stalled project to move forward. The payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, calls for a 95 percent tax break [...]
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BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: February 29, 2012
Tags: Baltimore Board of Estimates, Baltimore City Police Officer Boris D. Graham, Baltimore Police Department, City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young, City Solicitor George Nilson, excessive force, George Nilson, litigation, police, Settlement
The Baltimore Board of Estimates on Wednesday signed off on a $70,000 settlement with three people, one a 2-year-old boy, who were injured by city police officers during a 2009 arrest. The city’s spending board approved the settlement — the first of its kind this year — with only one dissenting vote coming from City [...]
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BY: Lawyers USA
POSTED: February 22, 2012
Tags: compensation, interpreters, language, lawyers usa, litigation, Supreme Court, Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan, translator, united states
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether the costs of document translators are covered under a federal statute that requires the losing party in litigation to pay for “compensation for interpreters.” The case, Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan, involves a premises liability claim brought by a Japanese baseball player who was injured [...]
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 31, 2012
Tags: asbestos, asbestos trust, Bankruptcy, claims, fred festa, litigation, personal injury lawsuit, reorganization, sealed air corp., stock, u..s district court, w.r. grace & co.
W. R. Grace & Co. said Tuesday that a U.S. District Court affirmed its reorganization plan, putting the chemical maker a step closer to emerging from bankruptcy protection after more than a decade under court supervision. The company originally filed for bankruptcy protection in April 2001 so it could resolve its asbestos-related liabilities. Its reorganization [...]
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BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: ada, allergy, Americans with Disabilities Act, chief judge robert m. bell, Children’s Manor Montessori School, Court of Appeals, damages, latex, lawsuit, litigation, maryland, Meade v. Shangri-La Partnership, Settlement
A private nursery school violated a Howard County statute by refusing to accommodate a mother’s request to stop using latex gloves when changing diapers, Maryland’s highest court has held. In a 4-3 decision, the Court of Appeals said Lisa Meade’s severe latex allergy constituted a “handicap” under the county’s Human Rights Code because the condition [...]
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