The Kennedy Krieger Institute can potentially be held liable to the brothers and sisters of participants in its controversial lead-paint abatement study in Baltimore.
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Anne Arundel County is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a decision upholding the constitutionality of the county’s statutory assessment of development-impact fees on people who build homes on their land.
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Entities seeking to collect defaulted mortgage loans in Maryland need not be licensed by state, Maryland’s top court ruled Thursday.
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Maryland contends the Constitution does not apply because the memorial cross essentially belongs to a private entity, The American Legion, though owned by a governmental agency.
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A government agency supervisor’s personal notes about an employee may be disclosable to the worker under the Maryland Public Information Act following judicial review, Maryland’s top court ruled Tuesday.
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The president of Maryland’s Senate and seven colleagues are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn a lower court’s 'utterly unrecognizable' decision.
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The State Board of Elections remains bound by the requirements of Maryland’s election law even when the statutory demands prevent the removal of a candidate’s name at his or her request, the state’s top court said Tuesday.
Tagged with: election law Jill Carter Larry Hogan Nathaniel Oaks
Read More »![“[T]he personal nature of a message on a vanity plate makes clear that the vehicle owner, not the state, is speaking,” Judge Deborah S. Eyler wrote for the court, deciding that a Maryland driver could not have the Spanish word "Mierda" on his license plate. (File)](https://thedailyrecord.com/files/2015/11/1a-PROFANE-Eyler-Deborah2MF-copy-300x160.jpg)
Maryland Court of Special Appeals Judge Deborah S. Eyler will step down from the bench Sept. 1, nearly four years before the state constitution would have mandated her retirement at age 70.
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A district court judge complied with the law and did not commit sanctionable conduct in her handling of a 2015 relationship violence hearing, the Court of Appeals held Tuesday.
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Retired Maryland Court of Appeals Judge John C. Eldridge, who served on the state’s top court for nearly 30 years, died Friday. He was 84.
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