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Recent Articles from Ben Mook

News September 20, 2012

Feds raid five Cecil liquor stores

As part of a years-long investigation into suspected liquor smuggling between Cecil County and New York retailers, federal investigators have raided five shops where people are suspected of illegally acting as middlemen for hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of alcoholic beverages since 2009.

News September 9, 2012

Payments plummet at Client Protection Fund, in number and amount

Even as potential claims facing the Client Protection Fund of the Bar of Maryland exceed $20 million, fiscal 2012 claims reached their lowest level in at least six years, both in number and amount.

News September 3, 2012

Surgeon pays price for defaulting on loan deal

A surgeon has agreed to work at an underserved hospital in Arizona for the next three years as part of a deal to work off half of $1.07 million in unpaid medical school loans, interest and treble damages she incurred by defaulting on a federal loan-forgiveness program.

News August 29, 2012

Friends, colleagues mark Preston’s passing

Wilbur D. “Woody” Preston Jr., a founder of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP and the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau’s Equal Justice Council, died Monday at age 90.

News August 28, 2012

Top court overturns 2006 conviction for felony murder

Even though he did not try to stop the crime when he was out of immediate danger, a murder suspect was entitled to have a jury consider whether he was acting under duress, the Court of Appeals has held.

News August 27, 2012

Public housing lawsuit nears an end

In a move that could wrap up more than 17 years of legal wrangling over fair housing options in Baltimore, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the city housing department have filed a proposed settlement agreement of a class action by public housing residents.

News August 27, 2012

Conaway plans suit over water-bill policies

Baltimore City Circuit Court Clerk Frank M. Conaway is planning to file a class action lawsuit that targets the city’s water department for allegedly permitting business customers to rack up millions of dollars in delinquencies while homeowners risk losing their homes for as little as $350 in unpaid bills.

News August 26, 2012

Cops can test DNA from breath-test straw

According to the state’s highest court, police did not violate the rights of a convicted rapist and registered sex offender, who was on probation for drunk driving, when they used saliva from a required alcohol test to tie him to an unsolved homicide.

News August 26, 2012

Managing ‘the largest law garden in the U.S.’

When he’s not up to his ears in work as the managing partner of Kramer & Connolly, you can often find Irwin R. Kramer out back, up to his ears in peppers, tomatoes, squash and herbs behind the four-lawyer firm’s historic Main Street office in Reisterstown.

News August 26, 2012

Top court gives speed-camera suit a red light

Despite being unpopular to the point of people taking bats and rocks to them, speed cameras in one Maryland county are not going anywhere after the Court of Appeals last week upheld the dismissal of a class action lawsuit that challenged their legality.

News August 22, 2012

‘SDAnon’ hit with lawsuit

An Australian “theological detective” with a team of hired hackers stole thousands of digitized pages of unpublished documents belonging to the estate of the co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a federal lawsuit alleges.

News August 21, 2012

Top court limits pit bull liability to purebreds

In a surprise move, Maryland’s top court on Tuesday said it had reconsidered its contentious ruling on liability for pit bull attacks and decided that, for now, it should apply only to purebred pit bulls.

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Jason DeLoach, a vice president at Alexander & Cleaver P.A., will take over as the president of the Maryland State Bar Association at the end of its annual conference this week. (Contributed photo)

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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., participates in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee's hearing about Congressional oversight of Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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2 finalists for Maryland bar counsel named by Attorney Grievance Commission

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Maryland Treasurer Dereck Davis speaks to a joint session of the Maryland General Assembly on Feb. 21, 2023, in Annapolis, after the legislature re-elected him to a four-year term. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

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The impact of the Sackett ruling

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The fight against antisemitism

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Happy Birthday, ALI

The American Law Institute celebrated its 100th birthday at its recently concluded annual meeting. T[...]

Communication makes clients happy

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House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., arrives at a secure room to see documents he demanded from the FBI as part of his investigation into the Biden family, at the Capitol in Washington on June 5, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Team champions David Puig, Sebastián Muñoz, Mito Pereira, Captain Joaquín Niemann of Torque GC and their caddies celebrate on stage with the team trophy during LIV Golf DC at the Trump National Golf Club on May 28, 2023, in Sterling, Virginia. (Photo by Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP, File)

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