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Maryland Court of Appeals Evidence; Authentication: At the defendant’s trial for attempted robbery and related offenses, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting Facebook-related evidence where there was sufficient circumstantial evidence under Maryland Rule 5-901(b)(4) for a ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Labor & Employment; Disability benefits: Under the Baltimore City Fire and Police Employees’ Retirement System compensation statute, which states that qualified employees are potentially eligible for either a higher level of line-of-duty level of benefits if ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Administrative Law; Exhaustion of administrative remedies: Where a company asserted an unconstitutional taking of its property arising from the application of a zoning regulation, the company was required to exhaust its administrative remedies by submitting all ...

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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Criminal Procedure; Search and seizure: Although holding that the defendant, by failing to timely file his mandatory motion challenging the sufficiency of a warrant for the search of his home, waived his right to a ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Professional Responsibility; Disbarment: The Court of Appeals disbarred a Maryland attorney who violated Maryland Attorneys’ Rules of Professional Conduct regarding competence, diligence, scope of representation, communication, safekeeping of property, unauthorized practice of law, expediting litigation, and ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Insurance Law; Statute of limitations: The statute of limitations in an underinsured motorist claim, in which the insured instituted a contract action against its own insurer to recover underinsured motorist benefits, began to run only when ...

Administrative Law; Appeals: Absent statutory authority granting a right of appeal, lacking in this case, the Court of Special Appeals had no jurisdiction over a circuit court’s ruling on judicial review of an administrative decision and, accordingly, dismissed the appeal. ...

Criminal Procedure; Post-Conviction Relief: A petitioner who had been found guilty but not criminally responsible was not eligible for post-conviction relief under the Uniform Post-Conviction Procedure Act because although the Act is remedial in nature and construed liberally, by its ...

Criminal Procedure; Termination of probation: Where defendant, prior to a hearing on a technical probation violation, served 26 days incarceration even though the sentence for the violation would have been only 15 days under the newly-enacted Justice Reinvestment Act, the ...

Professional Responsibility; Disbarment: Disbarment was the appropriate sanction for a Maryland attorney who, shortly after a client received her settlement, induced her into giving him funds as “investments” in several of his other pending cases and repeatedly provided her with ...