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As the third trial of police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray concluded with Officer Caesar Goodson acquitted on all charges, the relationship between the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City and the officers of the Baltimore Police Department ...

Gov. Larry Hogan proposed in the last legislative session that certain fees be reduced to match the administrative costs for each program for which fees were being collected. The General Assembly approved reductions for birth and death certificates – not ...

The Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) has been adopted in 22 jurisdictions, seven of which made the transition within the last year. New York and New Jersey will be implementing the UBE in July.  Washington, D.C., will be implementing the UBE ...

In April, Wanda A. Calvin Claiborne celebrated her 30th year with the Maryland State Bar Association. After graduating from Morgan State University with a radio and television production degree, she took a job at the MSBA as an office clerk.  ...

Johns Hopkins University recently awarded honorary L.H.D. degrees to retired Judge Ellen Heller and Shale Stiller. The honors are richly deserved, and we congratulate the two. It is difficult to think of a couple, so happily married, who have done ...

Maryland will take center-stage in the state-by-state medical cannabis rollout as the Natalie LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission prepares to award grower, processor and dispensary licenses this summer. By early 2017, qualifying Maryland patients will be able to purchase cannabis flower ...

On April 26, a fire erupted in the basement of the Mitchell Courthouse in Baltimore city. There has been little disclosure of the details of the fire other than a fire department statement that the fire may have been caused ...

(This editorial borrows heavily from the remarks of Baltimore City Circuit Judge Julie R. Rubin who, on behalf of the Women’s Bar Association, presented the first Etta Maddox Award to Court of Appeals Judge Lynne A. Battaglia at its annual ...

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Sometimes, the law has odious results. For example, rapists in Maryland can demand parental rights when it comes to children conceived in violence. For the women they brutalized, the emotional torment of fighting over custody and visitation amounts to a ...

Maryland has a state song. It’s not often sung and it’s pretty horrible. There were recent rumors that that some of the lyrics would be deleted by the General Assembly, but we have now learned that the lawmakers in Annapolis ...