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Several bills have been introduced into the General Assembly that would weaken the stranglehold that the three-tier alcohol distribution system has on wine sales to Marylanders. The bills would allow direct shipment of wine to Marylanders to varying degrees. We ...

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We urge members of the General Assembly to vote in favor of providing in-state college tuition rates for qualified children of documented and undocumented immigrants. Note that media attention surrounding this issue has not touched on the fact that legal, ...

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A woman’s right to choose is again center stage, and hearings on anti-abortion bills were the opening acts of Washington’s 2011 congressional theater, where a new conservative majority has given the issue top billing. Relying on an expansive reading of ...

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Last year the General Assembly considered, but did not pass, a bill directing the Department of Juvenile Services to provide the girls it serves with a “range and quality of services substantially equivalent to those offered to males.” We supported ...

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The General Assembly is poised to vote on a bill that would afford the legal and financial protection of marriage to committed same-sex partners. Support for this measure has been rising across the board in recent years. An increasing number ...

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During the 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan said that “trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.” Pundits and comedians have gotten much mileage out of Reagan’s “Killer Trees” comment. Recent actions and potential plans by the City of Baltimore make ...

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In our roles as the heirs of Coke, Mansfield, Holmes, et al., ad infinitum, each of us owes a duty to ensure the excellence of our own professional heirs. We can begin by ensuring the excellence of their legal education, ...

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From the White House to the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office comes a common mantra — a new era of accountability and transparency in government has dawned. In a January 21, 2009 Memo to the Executive Branch, President Obama directed federal ...

Suppose a Maryland politician were to advocate passing a new law that would make it a criminal offense for attorneys to volunteer more than a couple of hours of their legal services on behalf of their favorite candidates in this ...

At least as long ago as 1968, when the proposed new Maryland Constitution was defeated by the voters, largely on the strength of the argument that it would remove from the voters the right to elect their Circuit Court judges, ...