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Court of Appeals Evidence; Marital communications: Text messages between wife and husband charged with abusing a child were not confidential and were properly admitted in the circuit court because, under the Family Law Article, Marylanders are required to report child ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Civil Procedure; Taxpayer standing: Trial court properly granted motion to dismiss where plaintiff taxpayers failed to allege facts sufficient to establish taxpayer standing to maintain challenge to comprehensive rezoning and zoning map because they failed to ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Civil Procedure; Standing: Judgment of the Court of Special Appeals, which affirmed summary judgment against taxpayers in suit against Baltimore County, reversed because, where taxpayers established a reasonable likelihood of potential pecuniary harm derivative of waste ...

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4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Evidence; Authentication: Officer’s testimony regarding informant’s out-of-court statement was not hearsay because it was not offered for its truth and district court did not abuse its discretion in determining that photos taken by officer ...

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Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Ineffective assistance of counsel: While the failure of the defendant’s trial counsel to contact a potential alibi witness constituted deficient performance under the standard set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), the ...

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Court of Appeals Real Property; Covenants running with the land: Real estate brokers’ demand that property’s new owner pay the commissions due on lease renewal was properly rejected because the covenant to pay commissions was a personal one that did ...

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Court of Appeals Civil Procedure; Timeliness of appeal: Court of Appeals exercised its discretion and held that, pursuant to Maryland Rule 8-602(g)(1)(D), notice of appeal filed by petitioner should be treated as if it were filed on same day as, ...

4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Search & seizure: Judgment of the district court convicting defendant of child pornography, among other things, vacated because, where police seized defendant’s cell phone and did not obtain a warrant until 31 ...

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Court of Special Appeals Civil Procedure; Personal jurisdiction: A Maryland circuit court abused its discretion in exercising personal jurisdiction over the defendant, a North Carolina resident, in a lawsuit alleging breach of fiduciary duty based on the defendant’s handling of ...

Court of Special Appeals Civil Procedure; Appellate jurisdiction: Where purchaser of real property acquired rights in the property at a foreclosure sale, but paid a higher price because of the enhanced value attributable to the improvements that it had made, appeal ...

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