“The Wire” actress Sonja Sohn and Major League Baseball’s Joe Torre both watched helplessly as children while their fathers abused their mothers. Both managed to find ways to overcome the violence they witnessed as children, but it wasn’t easy. Now, ...
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Read More »Daily Record legal affairs reporter Danielle Ulman did some live blogging from the Defending Childhood Task Force at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. 11:45 a.m. A panel on the consequences for youth and society exposed ...
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Read More »Happy Thanksgiving week. Here’s a little taste of what’s going on in the legal world in this shortened work week. This one’s a doozy: A Georgia woman has been arrested for administering illegal silicone injections into the hips and rear ...
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Read More »Maryland’s U.S. Attorney’s Office recovered more than $126.7 million in civil and criminal cases in fiscal 2011, more than doubling the amount taken in the year before. The recovery marked an all-time high for the Maryland office, according to U.S. ...
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Read More »It took some time for Sheela Murthy to persuade her husband to embark on a 24-day trip around the world on a private jet. The Owings Mills immigration lawyer, founder of the Murthy Law Firm, wanted to see several exotic ...
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Read More »A man convicted of murder is entitled to a new trial because his first jury heard, three times, that he was on parole at the time of the killing, the Court of Special Appeals held Monday. The court said the ...
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Read More »Welcome back to work on this sunny Monday. Check out the links below to brighten your day. University of Maryland School of Law students are proposing stronger measures to protect children who are bullied in schools. For couples who can’t ...
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Read More »In the past, the cooperative association at Greenbelt Homes has taken action against residents for noise complaints, barking dogs and hoarding. The association drew the line, though, when David S. Schuman wanted to confine his next-door neighbor’s smoking to a ...
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Read More »It’s a sleepy Monday morning following the Ravens’ late-night win last night, but we’ve still managed to round up some interesting law tidbits for you below. Do nursing home lawsuits solve the problem of abuse and negligent care? A look ...
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Read More »Maryland’s top court has reprimanded an attorney who copied opposing counsel’s signature from a document she had revised, then pasted it on his original version and filed it without her permission. Dana Andrew Paul had a poor working relationship with ...
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