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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Constitutional Law; Inverse condemnation: A landowner’s inverse condemnation claim against the county was barred by the statute of limitations where it was filed more than three years after the final administrative agency decision denying the ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Criminal Law; Obstruction of justice: The defendant was improperly convicted of witness tampering and obstruction of justice for attempting to marry his girlfriend via a telephone call so that she could invoke her spousal privilege ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Civil Procedure; Post-conviction appealability: A probationer, in order to challenge a circuit court’s order revoking probation for a technical violation and sentencing him/her to incarceration, must do so by filing an application for leave to appeal, ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Civil Procedure; Absolute immunity: Members and staff of the State Board of Physicians were entitled to absolute immunity in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to recover damages resulting from their participation in ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Corporate Law; Ultra vires: A homeowner’s assertion of an offset in assessment dues against a homeowner’s association on the basis that the association lacked the power or capacity to raise assessment dues in a manner that ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Inconsistent verdicts: Where indictment charged defendant with robbery, second-degree assault, and theft, and jury returned a guilty verdict on the robbery and theft charges and a not guilty verdict on the second-degree assault charge, ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Workers’ Compensation; Awards: The Workers’ Compensation Commission had the authority to reopen claimant’s award of permanent partial disability compensation and retroactively increase his rate of compensation because Section 9-736(a) of the Labor and Employment Article, the ...

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Court of Appeals Criminal Law; Gross negligence manslaughter: Where defendant’s underlying act of distribution of heroin, which resulted in his buyer’s death from overdose, was inherently dangerous, the circumstances surrounding his sale—including that the victim was desperate for heroin, the victim ...

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Court of Special Appeals Criminal Law; Restitution: In sentencing the defendant for convictions for threatening arson and possessing a firearm after a disqualifying conviction, the sentencing court did not err in ordering restitution of $2,400, representing first month’s rent and ...

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Court of Appeals Family Law; Termination of parental rights: A juvenile court abused its discretion when it declined to find both parents of a child unfit and to terminate parental rights even though it found that the parents were unable ...

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