WASHINGTON — Capitol Police are investigating an incident in which a Republican lawmaker was blocked from entering the House chamber after setting off a metal detector while apparently carrying a concealed gun. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., set off the metal ...
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Prosecutor: Maryland man threatened IRS building, Pelosi
COLUMBIA — A Maryland man was arrested and accused of threatening to blow up a federal building and kill elected officials, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland said. A press release from the agency said Cody Wolf Gideon Mohr, ...
Read More »Judge rules that New York’s lawsuit seeking NRA’s dissolution can go forward
NEW YORK — A New York judge on Thursday denied the National Rifle Association’s bid to throw out a state lawsuit that seeks to put the powerful gun advocacy group out of business. Judge Joel Cohen’s ruling will allow New ...
Read More »Md. Senate bill would permit disclosure of police misconduct probes
Saying the legislation would help uncover law enforcement’s bad apples, a Baltimore state senator urged her colleagues Thursday to pass legislation that would remove documents relating to police misconduct investigations from the list of “personnel records” automatically exempt from disclosure ...
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Read More »Judge: NY lawsuit seeking NRA’s dissolution can go forward
A New York judge on Thursday denied the National Rifle Association’s bid to throw out a state lawsuit that seeks to put the powerful gun advocacy group out of business.
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Read More »Md. Senate panel considers bill to expand marijuana decriminalization
Legislation that would nearly triple the amount of marijuana a person could possess before being considered a criminal came before the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Wednesday. Under current law, possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana is a civil ...
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Read More »Surge in school choice lawsuits pushes possible high court fight
Vermont is facing at least its second lawsuit in four months over a voucher program that allows students in communities that don’t have schools or are not part of supervisory unions to attend schools of their choice, including approved private ...
Read More »ACLU report examines Baltimore police complaints and race
A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland looks at the role of race and complaints that have been filed against Baltimore police.
Read More »Law Digest — U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit — Jan. 21, 2021
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Criminal Procedure; Sentencing: Where district court imposed sentence of incarceration and post-release supervision at defendant’s sentencing hearing, then in a later written order added various financial conditions to the post-release supervision component ...
Read More »Baltimore, Big Oil wage Supreme Court battle over climate change lawsuit
An attorney for about two dozen fossil fuel companies urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to have Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against Big Oil litigated in federal rather than state court. Kannon K. Shanmugam pressed the justices to rule ...
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