Maryland Daily Record Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Estates & Trusts; Guardianship appointment: In a bench trial requested by an individual after the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene petitioned the circuit court for the appointment of a guardian of his person, ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Workers’ Compensation; Occupational disease: Where the record contained evidence that the nature of an employee’s job as a paramedic/firefighter involved hazards that placed him at greater risk for degenerative knee conditions than those faced by the ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Law; DUI: Where driver was cited for DUI after being found sleeping in his car, Administrative Law Judge erred when she found that driver was using car as a shelter and was not driving or ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Workers’ Compensation; Employer’s liability: Where the incontrovertible evidence showed that a party was employed by a landowner to manage his property but that the landowner exercised minimal control over the employee and a separate company ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Family Law; Marital settlement agreement: Where a marital settlement agreement between a husband and wife described the wife’s share of a retirement account as a specific sum and provided for investment experience from a certain ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Habeas corpus: A petitioner who was on unsupervised probation and living in Michigan was not eligible to seek habeas corpus relief in Maryland because he was not committed, detained, confined, or restrained in Maryland ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Contact Law; Promissory note: Under the principles of contract interpretation, a promissory note provision outlining the amount that an employee would be required to repay under a company’s tuition loan program in the event that the ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Criminal Procedure; Search and seizure: The circuit court erred in denying the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence discovered by Maryland Transit Authority officers when, during a fare inspection by MTA officials on  Light Rail Train, ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Criminal Procedure; Coram nobis: Where the defendant argued that the circuit court erred in accepting his guilty pleas on the basis that, prior to the date that he entered the guilty pleas, the State failed ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Evidence; Defense witnesses: The trial judge properly excluded from evidence proffered by the defendant to insinuate that another individual had committed the crime with which he had been charged, including evidence of the other individual’s ...