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A telecommunications company owes its former joint venture partner more than $45 million for fraudulently inducing it to invest in a cell phone network in Iraq, a Maryland appellate court has held.

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The Court of Special Appeals has affirmed a $469,000 verdict for a former Kennedy Krieger Institute nurse who experienced depression and post-traumatic stress after learning that her husband had never divorced his first wife.

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An Annapolis-based mortgage broker owes the victim of a foreclosure-rescue scheme $300,000, including $150,000 in punitive damages and $80,000 in attorney’s fees, an appellate court has held.

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A Baltimore-based insulation contractor that emerged from bankruptcy after other companies had resolved four asbestos cases cannot be held liable to the plaintiffs, an appellate court has held.

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The parents’ right to control who visits their children applies even to the children’s siblings, the Court of Special Appeals has held.

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The Court of Special Appeals has affirmed the misconduct convictions of two Baltimore police officers who picked up two teenagers in an unmarked van while on patrol and dropped them off miles from their homes — one of them without socks or shoes.

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Constitutional law Retroactive effect of Supreme Court rulings BOTTOM LINE: The holdings of Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010), and Denisyuk v. State, 422 Md. 462 (2011), did not apply retroactively to defendant, where defendant did not raise ...

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Evidence Lay testimony BOTTOM LINE: Where defendant’s friend of 45 years gave testimony identifying defendant at trial, Circuit court properly allowed such lay testimony because it was based on specialized knowledge, it was rationally based, and it was relevant. CASE: ...

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Criminal Law Sexual solicitation BOTTOM LINE: Where defendant did not “command, authorize, urge, entice, request, or advise” his 15-year-old victim before assaulting her, the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction for sexual solicitation of a minor; however, his challenge ...

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The Court of Special Appeals has affirmed a $5 million judgment against Georgia Pacific Corp. in favor of a University of Maryland nursing professor who lost a lung to mesothelioma after inhaling asbestos fibers that stuck to her grandfather’s work clothes in the late 1960s.

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