A Baltimore County jury returned a $20 million verdict Wednesday against Beretta USA for breaching a nondisclosure agreement with a local aerospace manufacturing company. The lawsuit alleged Beretta, a firearms manufacturing company, misappropriated work done by Adcor Defense Inc. to develop ...
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday named a longtime solo practitioner and career-long prosecutor to circuit court judgeships in Baltimore and St. Mary’s counties, respectively. The governor also selected an administrative law judge and an assistant Maryland attorney general to ...
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Police officers of color in Prince George’s County filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging the work environment in the county police department is “pervaded by race discrimination and retaliation.” The lawsuit, announced by the ACLU of Maryland, claims white officers ...
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Retirements, an unfilled vacancy, and a persistent flow of complex civil and criminal litigation have combined to strain the resources of Baltimore’s federal bench in recent years. Though case filings are not up dramatically, there aren’t as many judges available ...
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A lawsuit filed in federal court this week seeks to protect a name synonymous with Maryland cuisine: Old Bay. McCormick & Co. alleges Pittsburgh-based Primal Palate’s seasoning blend “New Bae” infringes on the Baltimore spice maker’s trademark for the company’s ...
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Maryland will award grants totaling about $1 million to 11 counties to develop and improve pretrial service programs as courts have moved away from cash bail in favor monitored release of defendants before trial, the Governor’s Office of Crime Control ...
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A federal judge denied the Baltimore Police Department’s request to hold separate trials in a civil lawsuit against the department and former Gun Trace Task Force officers, finding it would not necessarily save judicial resources and a single trial is unlikely ...
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A federal judge was skeptical of a legal challenge to Ocean City’s ordinance banning female toplessness on its beaches at a hearing Friday as town officials testified to the numerous calls, emails and conversations they had with concerned residents and ...
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A federal judge has denied the city’s request to stay proceedings in a lawsuit filed against the Enoch Pratt Free Library, according to an order filed Thursday. In a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore last month, city ...
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The Maryland Judiciary is testing a system that texts court date notifications to defendants with the hope that the reminders will increase appearance rates. The program launched Monday and allows defendants in district court who are screened for public defender representation for criminal ...
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