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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Tagged with: chief judge Joseph Getty judicial retirement Larry Hogan Lynne Battaglia Mary Ellen Barbera Matthew Fader robert ehrlich Robert M. Bell
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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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