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Criminal cases will be scheduled before civil litigation when jury trials resume Oct. 5 if all goes according to plan amid uncertainty about COVID-19’s resilience and the likely need for social distancing well into the fall, the chair of Maryland’s ...

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A political upheaval of sorts occurred last month in Maryland’s primary election for circuit court judges — one little noticed by the public, but not ignored by the state’s legal establishment. While normally sitting circuit court judges cruise to victory ...

Medical personnel at Johns Hopkins Hospital released a newborn to her parents four years ago without telling them of a potentially cancerous abnormality discovered in the girl’s adrenal gland, the parents allege in a wrongful-death lawsuit they filed this week ...

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Maryland courts remain at least 11 weeks away from resuming jury trials, a nearly three-month span that will deepen the backlog of cases wrought by the Judiciary’s effort to ensure that justice is not unduly delayed as it seeks to ...

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An Anne Arundel County man is asking a Circuit Court judge to order the county ban the use of chokeholds and neck restraints after he says he was the victim of an unwarranted traffic stop in which he was pinned ...

The University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center canceled a transgender man’s prescribed hysterectomy because the surgery would have violated the hospital’s religious prohibition on direct sterilizations of patients, according to a lawsuit the man filed Thursday alleging the facility violated ...

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It was New Mexico’s first jury trial since the pandemic crippled the U.S. criminal justice system, and defense attorney Roberta Yurcic was nervous. The court had erected a plexiglass panel on the defense table as a shield against the coronavirus, ...

Three immigration courts reopened Monday as the government extended its push to fully restart the clogged system despite rising coronavirus cases in states where many of the small courtrooms are located. In Baltimore, people with hearings to reach final decisions ...

A Baltimore city police sergeant is facing accusations of kidnapping and extortion after demanding a refund in connection with a home improvement project. James Lloyd, 45, was arrested Thursday after Baltimore County police detectives received information about a dispute between ...

ANNAPOLIS — Court proceedings to determine criminal sanity for a man who pleaded guilty to killing five people at Maryland newspaper have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Jarrod Ramos’ pretrial hearings have been moved to August and a ...