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Arrest outside bar leads to $72K settlement (access required)

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: May 23, 2013
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In a memo supporting the settlement, a deputy city solicitor said there were questions about whether police had probable cause to make the arrests outside the Mad River Bar & Grille and noted that security staff said they never asked police to charge any of the plaintiffs.

The Baltimore City Board of Estimates approved this week a $72,000 settlement to resolve a claim by three relatives who alleged that police falsely arrested and assaulted them outside a Federal Hill bar.

$8.6M for slain club patron’s family (access required)

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: May 14, 2013
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A Prince George’s County jury this week awarded nearly $8.6 million to the mother and children of George Cooper, who was fatally stabbed three years ago inside the CFE Event Center, after finding that the Forestville club failed to provide adequate security.

Editorial: In loco parentis – an unspoken promise (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 18, 2013
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Two recent court events involving public school systems help shed light on the nature of the relationship between parents and the institutions and people to which they trust their children.

Exxon’s neighbors ask top court to restore verdicts in gasoline leak cases (access required)

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: April 17, 2013
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Hundreds of Baltimore County residents and businesses who sued Exxon Mobil Corp. over a 2006 gasoline leak have asked the state’s top court to reconsider a decision that stripped them of damages totaling more than $1.6 billion.

94-year-old settles fraud suit against grandkids (access required)

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: April 9, 2013
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A 94-year-old Maryland woman has agreed to settle the lawsuit she brought against her grandchildren, claiming they engaged in a “campaign of harassment and abuse” to drive her from the home she built on their Virginia farm.

Residents win housing accommodation suit (access required)

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: March 31, 2013
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The condominium board and property managers of a Prince George’s County development failed to prove that two disabled residents’ requests for side- and back-door keys were unreasonable, and must pay $40,000 as a result, the state’s highest court held.

Court of Special Appeals restores stroke verdict (access required)

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: March 27, 2013
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An Edgemere man whose stroke symptoms were diagnosed as carpal tunnel syndrome has convinced an appellate court to reinstate the $1.1 million verdict a jury awarded him in his medical malpractice suit.

Judge enters $1.8M verdict against teen who threw fatal punch in attack (access required)

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: March 18, 2013
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An Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge has awarded about $1.8 million to the family of a 14-year-old Crofton boy who died after being beaten in what police described as a gang-related attack.

Motorcyclist settles action for $540K (access required)

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: March 14, 2013
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A Baltimore man who was severely injured when a drunk driver ran a red light and struck his motorcycle has settled his lawsuit against the driver, the driver’s employer and the employer’s insurance providers.

Court of Appeals affirms verdict against CSX (access required)

BY: Staff and Wire Reports
POSTED: March 8, 2013
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Federal law does not bar a railroad worker from recovering damages for degenerative conditions caused by having to continuously walk on crushed rocks in rail yards, Maryland’s highest court has ruled.

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A “Field of Flags” was installed by residents of the Charlestown retirement community in Catonsville in preparation for Memorial Day. Each of the 500 flags was sponsored by a local business for $35, with proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior Project and the Charlestown Benevolent Care Fund. Photo submitted by Mel Tansill.

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