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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 ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Civil Procedure; Standing: Where homeowners acknowledged that the closing fees for the purchase of their home were reasonable, their lawsuit against their real estate agents, which was filed several years after they ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Civil Procedure; Class action: Where individuals who had assigned structured settlement benefits filed a class action against the assignees of those benefits seeking civil damages on the ground that the assignments were the product of fraud ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Law; Sentencing: Criminal Law §5-612, which unambiguously provides for a minimum penalty of five  years’ imprisonment without parole for a volume possession of a controlled dangerous substance, the maximum allowable penalty for violation of the ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Real Property; Homeowners assessments: Where lot owner defaulted on promissory note with homeowner’s association for payment of delinquent property assessments, circuit court properly dismissed association’s confessed judgment complaint against lot owner because such assessments fall within ...

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 ...