Maryland high court grants homeless mother new trial in truancy case

June 18, 2021 Leave a comment

A Washington County mother who moved frequently with her child from a homeless shelter to motels will get a new trial on a charge that she failed to send the youngster to school.

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Supreme Court backs Nestle, Cargill in child slave labor suit

June 18, 2021 Leave a comment

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sided with food giants Nestle and Cargill on Thursday and threw out a lawsuit that claimed they knowingly bought cocoa beans from farms in Africa that used child slave labor. The justices ruled 8-1 that ...

Police agencies struggling to recruit since George Floyd murder

June 18, 2021 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Sunday, May 31, 2020, file photo, a police officer points a hand cannon at protesters who have been detained pending arrest on South Washington Street, in Minneapolis. President Donald Trump has characterized those clashing with law enforcement in the wake of George Floyd’s death under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer as radical-left thugs engaging in domestic terrorism. The Associated Press has found that more than 85 percent of those charged by police were locals. Only a handful appeared to have any affiliation with organized groups involved in the protests. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Law enforcement agencies across the country are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers in the year since George Floyd was killed by a cop.

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Biden’s silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

June 18, 2021 Leave a comment

FILE - This March 22, 1995, file photo shows the interior of the execution chamber in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Activists widely expected President Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment. Instead, the White House has been mostly silent. (AP File Photo/Chuck Robinson)

Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, especially since an unprecedented spate of executions by his predecessor ended just days before Biden took office. Instead, ...

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Col. Rose Forrest named top Leader in Law

June 17, 2021 Leave a comment

Col. Rose M. Forrest was named the top winner in the Leadership in Law awards during The Daily Record’s Leadership in Law online celebration Thursday. Forrest was selected by a vote of the other Leadership in Law winners. Forest is the ...

Foe of Hogan’s anti-BDS order assails loyalty ‘oath’ in 4th Circuit appeal

June 17, 2021 Leave a comment

Saqib Ali introduces CAIR attorney Carolyn Homar, right, to his mother Samina Ali, following at a press conference, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Catonsville, Md., announcing a legal challenge to Maryland's anti-BDS Executive Order. Maryland's ban on contracting with businesses that boycott Israel tramples on the First Amendment rights the software engineer who advocates for Palestinians, a Muslim civil rights group claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. (Karl Merton Ferron/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order requiring bidders on state contracts to forswear boycotting Israel reflects the early Cold War loyalty oaths forswearing Communism that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed unconstitutional, a software engineer and would-be bidder who supports ...

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US to challenge 2 states over transgender restrictions

June 17, 2021 Leave a comment

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday challenged bans involving transgender people that target athletes in West Virginia and children in Arkansas, slamming them as violations of federal law. The department filed statements of interest in lawsuits ...

Supreme Court sides with Catholic agency in foster care dispute

June 17, 2021 Leave a comment

In this June 20, 2019, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington as a storm rolls in. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a Catholic foster care agency that says its religious views prevent it from working with same-sex couples as foster parents.

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DC man gets nearly 5 years for Baltimore County gun store theft

June 17, 2021 Leave a comment

Courts in Minnesota are grappling with whether a woman convicted of manslaughter who later had that conviction overturned — though with a judge later describing her as a “linchpin” in the murder case — is eligible for compensation for the time she was in prison. (Depositphotos)

A Washington, D.C., man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for stealing firearms from a Maryland gun store.

Retiring Chief Judge Barbera thanks bench and bar for ‘wonderful ride’

June 16, 2021 Leave a comment

“I am gratified beyond words to do the work of justice,” said Court of Appeals Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, who reaches Maryland’s mandatory judicial retirement age of 70 on Sept. 10. (The Daily Record/File Photo)

Maryland’s retiring top jurist Wednesday ended her last public appearance on the bench by thanking the state’s judiciary and more than 40,000 attorneys for “keeping the rule of law strong.” “I am gratified beyond words to do the work of ...

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