Google parent agrees to $310M misconduct lawsuit settlement

September 25, 2020 Leave a comment

FILE - In this July 25, 2017, file photo, Alphabet stock is shown on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. Google's parent company has reached a $310 million settlement, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in a shareholder lawsuit over its treatment of allegations of sexual misconduct by executives. Thousands of Google employees walked out of work in protest in 2018 after The New York Times revealed Android creator Andy Rubin received $90 million in severance even though several employees filed misconduct allegations against him. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Google's parent company has reached a $310 million settlement in a shareholder lawsuit over its treatment of allegations of executives' sexual misconduct.

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Judge dismisses civil rights claims in Hagerstown inmate’s death

September 25, 2020 Leave a comment

Maryland Correctional Institution, Hagerstown (FILE)

A federal judge this week dismissed – at least for now — civil rights claims brought against state prison personnel by the family of a prisoner beaten to death by his cellmate in a western Maryland penitentiary. Benjamin Hall’s family ...

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Bowie State to investigate video of officer pulling student

September 25, 2020 Leave a comment

Bowie State University, one of Maryland's Historically Black Colleges and Universities. (File Photo)

BOWIE — The president of Maryland’s Bowie State University says it will investigate an incident during which a campus police officer apparently pulled a student down a set of stairs. The Capital Gazette reported Thursday that a video posted on ...

Md. Lawyers Survey: Unease with economy persists

September 24, 2020 Leave a comment

This is the latest installment of The Daily Record’s Maryland Lawyers Survey, a confidential survey of private attorneys in the state sponsored by the Maryland State Bar Association that explores their views on the economic factors influencing attorneys’ practices. If you’d ...

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Homebuyers urge justices to revive kickback claim against Md. firms

September 24, 2020 Leave a comment

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, early Monday, June 15, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Counsel for more than 1,000 homebuyers has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive their longstanding class-action lawsuit alleging they were harmed by an undisclosed kickback scheme between their Clarksville-based real estate agency and a Columbia title company. In papers ...

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No charges after Delaware review of 2015 police shooting

September 24, 2020 Leave a comment

WILMINGTON, Del. — The Delaware Attorney General’s Office is standing by its earlier decision not to charge police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a Black man in a wheelchair, following a review of new evidence in the case. ...

Md. courts make adjustments to resume jury trials Oct. 5, judges say

September 23, 2020 Leave a comment

“The days of packing jurors in jury rooms across this state and sitting shoulder to shoulder in a jury box are over for now,” said Prince George’s County Circuit Judge Sheila R. Tillerson Adams. (Maximilian Franz/The Daily Record)

Maryland’s circuit courts will be ready to resume jury trials Oct. 5 in a socially distanced world by taking creative steps, such as converting firehouses to jury rooms, conducting jury selection via Zoom and having jurors sit and deliberate in ...

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Law Digest — Maryland Court of Special Appeals — Sept. 24, 2020

September 23, 2020 Leave a comment

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Administrative Law; Zoning application: An agency’s decision to deny an application for a special exception on the ground that procedural timeframes were not followed was arbitrary and capricious because the government waived the timeframes when ...

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Ginsburg remembered as prophet for justice, American icon

September 23, 2020 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2020, file photo U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during a discussion on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

WASHINGTON — With crowds of admirers swelling outside, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was remembered Wednesday at the court by grieving family, colleagues and friends as a prophet for justice who persevered against long odds to become an American ...

Some Dems, not yet Biden, talk of expanding Supreme Court

September 23, 2020 Leave a comment

"Nothing is off the table" for Senate rules changes if Republicans quickly confirm a new justice, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York warned in conference call Saturday with Democratic senators, according to a person on the private call. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON — The prospect that President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans will fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before the year is out has ignited a call for major changes on the court, including expanding the number of ...