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Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter has just been laid to rest after being shot in the head by his own service weapon. The vicious killing of the 18-year veteran occurred more than two weeks ago, and despite a $215,000 reward ...

By now, almost everyone has learned the Texas church shooter was not allowed, under federal law, to possess a firearm. Despite the prohibition found in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) that prevents a person convicted of domestic violence from possessing a ...

For the last five years, former Court of Appeals Judge Glenn Harrell and others have advocated before the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate for the enactment of legislation that would permit plaintiffs who prevail in suits brought in our ...

Recently, a special advisory committee appointed by the Judiciary recommended Maryland adopt the Uniform Bar Examination. We agree. Last year, we urged adoption of the UBE. In view of the recommendations of the advisory committee, we believe it is appropriate ...

Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once wrote “there is not under our Constitution a judicial remedy for every political mischief, for every undesirable exercise of legislative power.” U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz might easily have included those words earlier ...

Two years ago, we asked: “Why is Judge Nance allowed to continue sitting on the bench?” Finally, the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities has come to a conclusion, based in large part on the Braxton case that prompted our editorial, ...

Every October since 2009, the American Bar Association recognizes the vital role pro bono lawyers play in the legal services delivery system during the National Celebration of Pro Bono week, which officially begins Oct. 22. In Maryland, many of the ...

More than 20 million people worldwide are victims of forced labor, nearly 5 million of whom are sex workers. Traffickers recruit their victims by preying on societal and individual vulnerabilities. The most vulnerable members of our community may be taken ...

Judge Richard Posner of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the legendary professor and federal jurist, retired Sept. 2. Posner’s writings – in articles, books and case decisions – are prodigious. He has written so much on a variety ...

The aerial surveillance spy plane flying over Baltimore was much in the news in 2016. Earlier this summer, a spy plane program was considered – for a time – by the mayor and police force of Miami-Dade, Florida. But the ...

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