WASHINGTON — Forgive progressives who aren’t looking forward to the sequel of their personal “Nightmare on First Street,” a Supreme Court succession story. The original followed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s decision to forgo retirement from the high court, located on ...
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A software engineer and former Maryland legislator has urged a federal appeals court to revive his free-speech challenge to Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order requiring those bidding on state contracts to pledge they are not boycotting Israel and will not ...
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The Maryland Senate passed legislation Thursday night that would prohibit juveniles convicted of rape and murder from being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Senate Bill 494 would permit juveniles given lifetime sentences to become eligible ...
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The U.S. Justice Department’s to-do list was already daunting, especially with this year's flood of pandemic-delayed federal cases. And now two very different legal concerns — insurrection cases in Washington and tribal land disputes out West — are threatening to totally swamp the department.
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Maryland’s top court has cited a baseball legend in suspending for at least one year a National Harbor attorney who failed to keep settlement funds in a trust account, lied to clients about not receiving their settlement checks and told ...
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The Maryland Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday to legislation that would prohibit murderers and rapists from being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole if they were juveniles when they killed or raped. The Senate could vote ...
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Read More »Maryland Court of Appeals Real Property; Trespass: The circuit court did not lack subject matter jurisdiction in a trespass action by a campground owner against a former employee who, during the period of his employment, was provided an apartment rent-free ...
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If you didn’t know that Dorchester, Washington and Baltimore counties have some of the state’s highest eviction rates, or that over half of St. Mary’s County households spend more than 35% of their income on rent, you’re not alone. Until ...
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Then-Harford County State’s Attorney Joseph I. Cassilly withheld a potentially exculpatory report from defense counsel in a long-running first-degree murder case and then misled the post-conviction court about its existence, a hearing judge reviewing allegations of ethical wrongdoing by Cassilly ...
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BALTIMORE — A federal judge who ruled that a Baltimore man convicted of killing a 16-year-old girl forged the document that helped get him out of prison tossed out the man’s wrongful arrest lawsuit and ordered him to pay attorneys ...
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