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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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Court of Special Appeals Criminal Procedure; Sentencing: Where the defendant’s sentence was legal at the time that he filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence, the circuit court erred in granting the motion. State v. Bratt, No. 874, Sept. ...

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Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Coram nobis: Under the waiver provision of the Uniform Postconviction Procedure Act, Maryland Code, §7-106 of the Criminal Procedure Article (“CP”) (2001, 2018 Repl. Vol.), a petitioner, by his failure to raise the issue of ...

Court of Special Appeals Contract Law; Waiver of subrogation: Contractual waivers of subrogation do not shield a contracting party from third-party contribution and direct liability under the Maryland Uniform Contribution Among Joint-Tortfeasors Act. Gables Construction, Inc. v. Red Coats, Inc., ...

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Court of Special Appeals Civil procedure; Service: Following a hearing conducted by a magistrate on the parties’ divorce action, where, before the circuit court, the husband challenged the magistrate’s failure to comply with Maryland Rule 1-321(a), which states that service ...

Court of Appeals Administrative Law; Land annexation: Based on its interpretation of the ambiguous language of Local Government Article §4-403(b)(2), stating that before an annexation resolution is introduced, the legislative body shall obtain consent from: (1) at least 25 percent ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Voir dire: Judgment of the Court of Special Appeals, which affirmed the judgment of the circuit court, reversed because trial court abused its discretion by asking compound “strong feelings” questions and refusing to ask ...

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Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Post-conviction relief: Where client was convicted of one count of violating environmental regulations proscribing disposal of waste for each day on which the violation occurred, jury instruction that “every day on which a violation is ...

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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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