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When I set out to review the judges’ financial disclosure forms, I never expected that the process of getting the documents would be the story. My assignment was to review the disclosures filed by the seven judges on the state’s ...

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No change. No change. No change. Look at this year’s financial disclosure forms from the judges on the Court of Appeals, and that is the only disclosure you will find in many a category. Since 1975, the Maryland Judiciary has ...

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On this, my final law blog roundup for The Daily Record, we have breaking news — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case on Arizona’s polarizing immigration law. On with the rest of the news and links to ...

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They say that loose lips sink ships, but in the case of the yacht A Portrait, a failure to check a loose sea strainer cap sank the boat in Annapolis. Federal Insurance Co., which insured David C. Mitchell’s yacht, was ...

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Does Stephen Glass deserve a chance at redemption? The former journalist sent shock waves through the  journalism world in the ’90s when it was discovered that he fabricated many of his stories (you can read all about it here). But ...

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Maryland’s Board of Public Works approved a $430,000 settlement Wednesday with a man who said his supervisors at the University of Maryland University College discriminated against him because of his heritage. The school, which is the branch of the University ...

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Good Monday to you. Here’s some legal news to keep you informed. Jack Johnson’s actions confuse the grandmothers of Prince George’s County. (Johnson is set to be sentenced Tuesday.) An unlicensed Silver Spring Lawyer has been ordered to stop lawyering. ...

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Two weeks ago, Charles N. “Chad” Curlett Jr. moved offices and started a new business. By Tuesday, he is expecting the birth of his third child. Curlett, 40, a lawyer who started a partnership with attorney Steven Levin on Nov. ...

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Baltimore-born Paul B. Luskin has tangled with the law once again. This time, Luskin, who was imprisoned in 1988 for the botched murder-for-hire attempt on his ex-wife (complete with a flower deliveryman as the shooter), has been permanently disbarred in ...

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Maryland’s top court has reversed a lower court’s finding that a man obstructed or hindered the performance of a police officer when he gave the officer a fake license. The Court of Appeals said in an opinion Tuesday that the ...

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