WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday sounded an alarm about restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic, saying they shouldn’t become a “recurring feature after the pandemic has passed.” “The pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions ...
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Barbera orders suspension of Md. jury trials through December
Criminal and civil jury trials in Maryland will be suspended at least through the end of the year beginning Monday due to a resurgence of the COVID-19 virus, except for those cases in which a jury has already been empaneled, ...
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Read More »Ex-employees sue casino, allege hostile environment, retaliation
Maryland Live! gave short shrift to a casino employee’s claims of being barraged by a loyal customer’s misogynistic and racist slurs and then fired her — and her co-worker husband – after she threatened to go to the personnel department ...
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Read More »General Assembly will consider right to counsel for tenants, lawmakers say
The Maryland General Assembly will consider legislation this coming session that would give financially strapped tenants facing potential eviction a right to counsel at their court hearings, leaders of the legislature’s two judiciary committees said Tuesday. Funding for the legal ...
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Read More »Federal in-court proceedings to be suspended amid virus resurgence
All in-court proceedings and hearings in the U.S. District Court for Maryland will be suspended for at least two weeks beginning Monday due to a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the state, Chief Judge James K. Bredar said Wednesday. Some ...
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Read More »Judges’ character references to AGC raise ethics concerns
Judges may not write letters to the Attorney Grievance Commission attesting to the character of their ex-law clerks or other former lawyer-employees facing ethical complaints, lest the jurists’ messages be viewed as applying undue pressure on the lawyer-dominated disciplinary panel, ...
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Read More »Ice cream store workers beaten after mask request, 2 sought
EDGEWATER, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland say they’re looking for a man and a woman who attacked employees of an ice cream store after they were asked to wear masks because of the coronavirus pandemic. WBAL-TV reported Tuesday that the two ...
Read More »Baltimore Police ID man killed after shooting at officers
BALTIMORE — Baltimore police have identified a man fatally shot by a plainclothes officer who said the man fired at him first, unprovoked, wounding him in the thigh. Rodney Eubanks, 25, was shot and killed Monday after police said he ...
Read More »Law Digest — US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit — Nov. 12, 2020
US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Search & Seizure; Aerial surveillance: District court properly denied request for preliminary injunction seeking cessation of Baltimore Police Department’s aerial surveillance program, since the program, which does not search a person’s home, ...
Read More »Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff to leave DLA Piper
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, will leave his job as a partner with a high-profile law firm to focus on his role in the new Biden administration.
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