Criminal Procedure Competence to stand trial BOTTOM LINE: After defendant was granted a new trial on assault charges, the fact that his first trial had been delayed for four years while he was deemed incompetent to stand trial did not ...
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Read More »An appeals court has thrown out a voter-approved law in Arizona that denies bail to immigrants who are in the country illegally and have been charged with a range of felonies that include shoplifting, aggravated identity theft, sexual assault and murder.
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Read More »Maryland police must defend document-by-document their refusal to release documents related to its investigation of a woman’s claim that an officer called her by a racial epithet in a voicemail.
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The Court of Special Appeals has definitively turned aside an attempt to apply the $200,000 cap on damages under the Local Government Tort Claims Act to an award against individual police officers who acted with malice.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether workers at Amazon.com Inc. warehouses must be paid for time spent undergoing post-shift security searches in a case that will shape the power of employers over hourly workers.
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Read More »Same-sex couples who lined up to get married in Idaho and made plans to obtain wedding licenses in Las Vegas had their hopes dashed Wednesday after a U.S. Supreme Court justice temporarily blocked a lower-court ruling that declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada.
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Read More »MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS Criminal Procedure, Double jeopardy: Trial court erred in imposing separate sentences on defendant for second degree rape, third degree sexual offense, and incest because, according to the principles of double jeopardy, the “required evidence” test ...
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Read More »Civil Procedure Jurisdiction BOTTOM LINE: In plaintiff’s action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the U.S. District Court retained jurisdiction over plaintiff’s related retaliation claim after dismissing her underlying discrimination claims as untimely because district court had subject ...
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Read More »Criminal Procedure Double jeopardy BOTTOM LINE: Trial court erred in imposing separate sentences on defendant for second degree rape, third degree sexual offense, and incest because, according to the principles of double jeopardy, the “required evidence” test mandated the merger ...
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A medical device company may be liable for warranties made to the public or to medical professionals if they amount to “false or misleading” promotion of the off-label use of a device, a Maryland appeals court ruled.
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