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 ...
Tagged with: Brian Frosh J. Joseph Curran John Morrissey judicial retirement Larry Hogan Mary Ellen Barbera Paul DeWolfe
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A federal appeals court has revived a freedom of the press challenge to Maryland’s statutory ban on the broadcasting of official court recordings of criminal proceedings.
Tagged with: broadcast ban fair trial first amendment freedom of the press strict scrutiny
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A federal appeals court rejected on procedural grounds a psychotherapist’s free speech challenge to Maryland’s ban on treating youngsters with conversion therapy.
Tagged with: Brian Frosh conversion therapy first amendment free speech Larry Hogan
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Attorneys no longer need to defend their failure to have unmasked Maryland’s former longtime ballistics expert as a fraud in their effort to get their convicted clients a new trial, the state’s top court has ruled.
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Owners of pets killed by the negligence of others can recover at most $10,000 under Maryland law, the state’s top court ruled.
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An animal rights group is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an embattled Cumberland zoo’s effort to reverse a federal judge’s order that removed a lion and two tigers from the facility for their safety after other animals had ...
Tagged with: Endangered Species Act legal standing lions people for the ethical treatment of animals tigers Tri-State Zoological Park of Western Maryland
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Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera began her tenure as the state’s top jurist and the Judiciary’s lead administrator in July 2013 by pledging to strive for the “equal, fair and timely administration of justice.”
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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh will appeal a federal judge’s decision permitting gun rights advocates arrested during a peaceful protest near the State House three years ago to sue the arresting Maryland Capitol Police officer for allegedly violating their ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived Big Oil’s bid to have Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against about two dozen fossil fuel companies litigated in federal rather than state court. In a 7-1 decision, the justices ruled that the 4th U.S. ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a convicted rapist and murderer’s argument that his constitutional right to due process was violated during the 20-year span between the brutal slaying of a teenage girl in Frederick and his ...
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