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President Donald Trump announced what he described as a “temporary suspension of immigration into the United States." But an executive order he is expected to sign Wednesday to implement the change would bar only those seeking permanent residency, not temporary workers.

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Lawyers for the Baltimore Police Department told a federal judge on Tuesday that plans for camera-equipped planes to conduct aerial surveillance of the city should proceed, saying the crime-fighting tactic is constitutional despite the objections of civil liberties advocates.

Maryland Court of Appeals Insurance Law; Statute of limitations: The statute of limitations in an underinsured motorist claim, in which the insured instituted a contract action against its own insurer to recover underinsured motorist benefits, began to run only when ...

Citing the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, a prisoners’ rights group is seeking a federal court order to release medically vulnerable detainees from the Prince George’s County jail to protect them from contracting or spreading the COVID-19 virus. ...

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A company cannot be held responsible for racist and sexist comments by co-workers so long as it takes steps “reasonably calculated” to stop the hateful banter, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in rejecting a black woman’s effort to hold ...

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Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh is alerting investors to be on guard against an anticipated surge of fraudulent investment schemes. The attorney general’s securities division anticipates fraudulent investment schemes will rise as a result ...

WASHINGTON — Returning to a divisive issue at a time of national crisis, President Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States” because of the coronavirus. “In light of the attack ...

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Maryland’s top court has unanimously disbarred a Baltimore lawyer who, the judges concluded, ignored everything about his clients except their retainer payments — which he, in turn, declined to keep in a trust account until earned as required under the ...

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ATLANTA — Scrambling to address voting concerns during a pandemic, election officials across the country are eliminating polling places or scaling back opportunities for people to cast ballots in person — a move that is raising concerns among voting rights ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has issued an executive order to expedite the release of hundreds of inmates scheduled to be let out in next four months. The order signed Saturday and posted on the governor’s website Sunday also ...

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