Judges in termination of parental rights cases must make sure their decisions are not clouded by considerations more appropriate for third-party child-custody disputes, such as the certainty of the youngster’s future with adoptive parents, Maryland’s top court ruled this week.
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A 24-year-old Baltimore man could be sentenced to life in prison in October after pleading guilty to a heroin distribution conspiracy linked to 27 overdoses — nine of them fatal.
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A U.S. Army sergeant’s girlfriend has testified to helping him kill his soldier wife in 2015. The Baltimore Sun reports 33-year-old Dolores Delgado testified against 37-year-old Sgt. Maliek Kearney Wednesday. Kearney is accused of crossing state lines to kill 24-year-old Army Pfc. ...
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Democrats opposing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's nomination are seizing on remarks he made in 2016 saying he would like to put the "final nail" in a Supreme Court precedent upholding an independent counsel law as constitutional. Republicans are pushing back, saying Kavanaugh's comment is being distorted.
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In response to client needs for broader legal services and a larger geographic reach, two former partners from Towson-based Treanor Pope & Hughes have joined Womble Bond Dickinson’s Baltimore office.
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Jewish people are protected by a law against racial discrimination in employment decisions, a federal magistrate judge has concluded in siding with a football coach suing a private Baptist college in Louisiana.
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After Cody Wilson settled a lawsuit with the State Department, Americans now can build 3-D-printed guns.
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Read More »Court of Appeals Civil Procedure, Jurisdiction over attorney disciplinary matters: Bar Counsel’s decision not to investigate a complaint of attorney misconduct was part of an attorney disciplinary proceeding, falling under the Court’s original and exclusive jurisdiction over attorney disciplinary matters. ...
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A workaround by states to counter Trump administration cuts to Affordable Care Act subsidies has largely succeeded in protecting consumers from higher costs, California and 17 other states said.
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One police officer has left the Baltimore County police and another has been suspended amid an investigation into claims made against them in a high-profile police corruption trial.
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