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The widow of a man who had a fatal heart attack at MGM National Harbor in 2017 is suing the resort, claiming it failed to provide prompt assistance and did not have a defibrillator on site. Donald Boyd went into cardiac ...

ANNAPOLIS — Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Laura Ripken ruled in a hearing Thursday that defense mental health experts in the Capital Gazette shooting trial will not be made to provide their notes from neurological and psychological testing to ...

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The Baltimore City Circuit Court’s efforts to reduce its backlog of asbestos cases belies any need for statutory, regulatory or budgetary changes to how these personal injury claims are currently handled, the Maryland Judiciary stated this week in a report ...

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Baltimore attorney Kenneth W. Ravenell pleaded not guilty to federal racketeering charges Wednesday, and his trial was scheduled to begin Dec. 9. Ravenell appeared in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt Wednesday for an arraignment, according to a news release from ...

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A federal lawsuit filed by a Baltimore police trainee who was shot in the head during a training exercise in 2013 has been tentatively settled, according to attorneys. Raymond Gray’s lawsuit against the Baltimore Police Department and Officer William Scott Kern ...

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The family of an incarcerated man who was beaten to death by his cellmate in a western Maryland prison filed a civil rights lawsuit last month alleging prison officials and correctional officers failed to protect him. Benjamin Hall died Oct. ...

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A rare class action against a group of defendants for alleged illegal debt collection practices was dismissed last month, but the plaintiffs will ask the Court of Special Appeals to revive it. The lawsuit, filed earlier this year in Baltimore City Circuit Court, alleged ...

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Montgomery County filed a potential class-action suit Friday alleging an e-cigarette manufacturer created an epidemic of underage nicotine addiction by portraying its product and vaping as “a teen pop culture icon and status symbol.” The lawsuit against Juul Labs Inc. claims ...

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A Baltimore prosecutor and an assistant attorney general have been nominated to fill the vacant state prosecutor position, the commission charged with recommending candidates announced Friday. Michael Dunty, of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office, and Charleton Howard III, of the ...

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Proposed amendments to the Maryland Rules would allow the Court of Appeals to place judges on administrative leave or even suspend them without pay during disciplinary proceedings, changes prompted by the situation in Baltimore involving now-retired Judge Devy Patterson Russell. ...

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