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Earlier this year, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a sweeping law that would ban almost all future noncompete agreements in the district starting next year. The new statute is one of the most radical and far-reaching laws of ...

More than a handful of Democrats have called for 83-year-old Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire while there is still time to assure that a Democrat will be president when the time comes to appoint his successor, or before ...

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All too often, one litigant or another, sometimes both, play a game of chicken before settling their cases by waiting until a jury has been selected and seated. Seating a jury is costly to the court both in terms of ...

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In a criminal case, every state in the United States allows the government and defendants to use peremptory strikes to remove undesirable jurors in their attempts to mold a jury of the defendant’s “peers.” Few judges and lawyers who have ...

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On Aug. 3 the Biden administration, through Dr. Rochelle Wallensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, issued a new eviction moratorium that, like the previous one and its three extensions, is unconstitutional. Even the president agrees. ...

In a lawsuit to have the last Confederate monument removed from public grounds in Maryland, Talbot County has filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that “mere offense through observation of a statue” does not create an appropriate injury ...

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Employers can play a vital role in ending the pandemic once and for all – if they take the initiative.  In June, a federal court in Texas dismissed a suit brought by employees challenging the right of their employer, a ...

Merriam-Webster defines “accountability” as  “the quality or state of being accountable especially: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.” We fans of good government — a regime marked by integrity, transparency, and efficiency — ...

We have written many editorials over the years regarding the state of Baltimore’s courthouses.  Individual members of the advisory board have discussed the need for a new courthouse and complete rebuilding of the current courthouses with successive governors, mayors, members ...

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Transparency in government. Politicians and officials regularly say they are favor of it, but there remain some surprising limits on such transparency. Take, for example, Maryland’s “broadcast ban” statute. The “ban” prohibits – subject to criminal penalty — recording or ...

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