Oil companies urged a full federal appeals court to hear its argument that Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit belongs in federal rather than state court.
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Read More »May 6, 2022 Comments Off on Big Oil Seeks full 4th Circuit review in Baltimore’s climate change suit
Oil companies urged a full federal appeals court to hear its argument that Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit belongs in federal rather than state court.
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Read More »May 5, 2022 Comments Off on Medical marijuana panel lacks administrative review, Md. court says
Cannabis growers and processors denied licenses by Maryland’s medicinal marijuana commission may seek judicial review without first mounting an administrative challenge, the state’s second-highest court ruled.
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Read More »May 4, 2022 Comments Off on Md. weapons ban fails strict scrutiny, gun groups tell justices
Maryland’s ban on semiautomatic assault-style weapons violates the constitutional right to bear arms because the blanket prohibition is not narrowly tailored to achieve the compelling governmental interest of public safety, gun rights advocates stated last week in their final bid ...
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Read More »May 3, 2022 Comments Off on Tax sale certificates assignable until deed issues, Md. high court says
Winning bidders at auctions for property on which taxes have gone unpaid can assign their sale certificates to someone else at any time before the deed on the purchased land is issued, a sharply divided Maryland high court ruled last ...
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Read More »April 29, 2022 Comments Off on Md. high court finds state’s gun-control provision stricter than fed’s
Defendants can be convicted of gun possession by a prohibited person even if they were unaware they were barred from having the weapon due to a past conviction, Maryland’s top court said Thursday in a unanimous ruling that makes the ...
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Read More »April 28, 2022 Comments Off on High court upholds Barbera’s statute-of-limitations suspension
Maryland’s then top judge acted within her constitutional authority in suspending the deadline for filing civil claims as she closed the clerks’ offices to stanch the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the state’s high court unanimously ruled Wednesday. In its ...
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Read More »April 26, 2022 Comments Off on Md. high court tells 4th Circuit robbery is inherently violent
A man seeking a reduction of his enhanced, nearly five-year federal prison sentence for gun possession by a "violent" felon received no help from Maryland’s top court.
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Read More »April 25, 2022 Comments Off on Timonium car dealer loses 4th Circuit bid for arbitration in wage dispute
Current or former car salespeople who allege a Timonium-based dealership cheated them of more than $1 million in commissions can pursue their lawsuit in federal court.
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Read More »April 22, 2022 Comments Off on Getty plans to write book, serve as assigned judge in retirement
Recently retired Court of Appeals Chief Judge Joseph M. Getty, who often regales visitors to Maryland’s high court with stories of its history, said he plans to put his words to paper.
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Read More »April 21, 2022 Comments Off on Patients of bogus Cheverly doctor defend class-action bid to Supreme Court
The fate of a potential class-action, emotional-distress lawsuit by hundreds of women seen by a man who posed as an obstetrician and gynecologist in Cheverly could rest with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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