Maryland’s top court suspended an immigration law attorney for 60 days Wednesday for failing to properly communicate with a client and improperly managing an attorney trust account. A majority of the Court of Appeals determined that Rockville attorney Raj Sanjeet ...
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Most counties in Maryland, along with more than 20 cities and towns in the state, have filed suit against opioid companies in the last 18 months in an attempt to recoup the costs of fighting the drug epidemic still ravaging their communities.
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Attorneys for four exonerated men are asking the state Board of Public Works to pay the men $100,000 for each year they spent behind bars. Jerome Johnson, Lamar Johnson, Clarence Shipley and Hubert James Williams spent a combined 81 years incarcerated ...
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Judges and court employees are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law that prohibits sharing audio or video of criminal court proceedings. The “broadcast ban” has been on the books since 1981 and ...
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The Baltimore Police Department will partner with federal prosecutors and law enforcement to try to reduce violent crime in the city, the parties announced Tuesday. The National Public Safety Partnership program is a “three-year engagement” between the U.S. Department of Justice ...
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Baltimore courts have again rejected Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby’s attempt to vacate thousands of marijuana convictions. When Mosby announced sweeping policy changes to her office’s approach to marijuana prosecutions nearly six months ago, she said she also wanted to ...
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A Baltimore law firm obtained a $4.85 million products liability verdict in federal court in Virginia Thursday, potentially the largest ever against a national manufacturer of garage doors. Attorney Andrew G. Slutkin said jurors deliberated for around four and a ...
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The Baltimore Police Department cannot impose broad “gag orders” limiting what plaintiffs can say about settlement agreements, a federal appeals court panel ruled Thursday. A three-judge panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled by a 2-1 vote ...
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Gov. Larry Hogan announced three appointments to the Baltimore County District Court bench Wednesday, naming three private practitioners to the vacancies. Guido Porcarelli, a partner at the Law Offices of Frank F. Daily P.A. in Baltimore since 2011, is also ...
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The Baltimore Police Department’s marine unit wasted more than $30,000 in a botched boat salvage operation in late 2016 and early 2017, the city’s inspector general has concluded. The unit began removing a 32-foot boat from the Inner Harbor near ...
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