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Court of Appeals Professional Responsibility; Disbarment: Where an attorney’s protracted involvement in adoption proceedings resulted in, among other violations, a litany of misrepresentations to her clients and Bar Counsel. Disbarment, disbarment was the appropriate sanction despite attorney’s claim that she ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Civil Procedure; Venue: In an action filed by a wife in the Baltimore City circuit court stating claims against her husband for annulment, divorce, and conversion, the husband properly objected to venue by filing a ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Voir dire: Overruling the previous holding in Twining v. State, 234 Md. 97 (1964), the Court of Appeals held that, on request, during voir dire, the trial court must ask whether any prospective jurors are ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Speedy trial: Although a State statute and related court rule, collectively known as the “Hicks rule,” which holds that a criminal trial in a circuit court must commence within 180 days of the first ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Administrative Law; Arbitration: Where an arbitrator found that the firing of a Maryland Transit Administration employee had not been for “just cause” and ordered the employee’s reinstatement despite the employee’s undisputed involvement in an incident ...

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 ...