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On an internal spreadsheet marked “special interest,” University of Southern California officials catalogued in exhaustive detail the fundraising possibilities associated with certain well-connected applicants for admission. One candidate promoted by USC athletic officials was linked to a “250,000 signed pledge,” ...

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A grand jury has indicted a Maryland county police lieutenant who's accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2017 while he was off duty.

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The government's watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as "known or suspected terrorists" violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

A real estate company once run by President Donald Trump's son-in-law has rejected a settlement offer from Maryland's attorney general in a long-running investigation into the treatment of tenants, the president of the company said Wednesday.

Todd R. Chason has been elected as Gordon Feinblatt LLC’s new managing member, or chief operating officer, and general counsel. Chason, who previously served as the firm’s assistant managing member and finance committee chair, has been with the firm 17 years since he graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2001.

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A group of Maryland delegates is urging the Board of Public Works to compensate five men who were wrongfully incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. In a letter to the board’s members — Gov. Larry Hogan, Comptroller Peter Franchot ...

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Maryland’s top court on Thursday opens the public sessions of its 2019-2020 term, during which it will consider among its approximately 75 appeals whether the state’s remedy for an unconstitutional tax it imposed on out-of-state income is similarly unconstitutional. During ...

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WASHINGTON — Prominent Washington lawyer Greg Craig was found not guilty Wednesday of lying to the Justice Department about work he did for the government of Ukraine in a case that arose from the special counsel’s Russia investigation and that ...

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Maryland’s Court of Appeals may determine if members of Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force who falsely arrested a man for possession of a gun were acting within the scope of their employment if the judges agree to answer a certified ...

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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Labor & Employment; Occupational diseases: Circuit court properly granted employer’s motion to dismiss worker’s action under Federal Employer’s Liability Act, which alleged that he was exposed to asbestos during his maritime employment, because worker’s disease ...