Embattled Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has asked to postpone her federal criminal trial, a move that could prolong the case until September.
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Embattled Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has asked to postpone her federal criminal trial, a move that could prolong the case until September.
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Read More »March 31, 2022 Comments Off on LGBTQ groups sue Florida over so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law
Gay rights advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to block a new law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Read More »March 31, 2022 Comments Off on Convicted killer seeks high court review, claims racial bias in appellate opinion
Racially charged comments so permeated a recently reported Maryland appeals court opinion that a convicted killer deserves a new hearing before an impartial appellate body, the Black convict’s attorney argued.
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Read More »March 31, 2022 Comments Off on NSA employee charged with mishandling classified material
A National Security Agency employee has been charged with emailing classified national security information to somebody who wasn’t authorized to receive it, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday. Mark Robert Unkenholz, 60, of Hanover, was arrested Thursday and scheduled ...
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Read More »March 31, 2022 Comments Off on Hogan endorses Vignarajah, a Democrat, in Baltimore State’s Attorney’s race
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has endorsed Democrat Thiru Vignarajah in the race for Baltimore City State's Attorney.
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Read More »March 30, 2022 Comments Off on High court refers dispute over attorney grievance discovery rules to committee
The Maryland Judiciary's rules committee will revisit a recent change to discovery rules after the revision became a key issue in a pending attorney grievance proceeding.
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Read More »March 30, 2022 Comments Off on Law Digest — 4th US Circuit, Md. Court of Appeals — March 31, 2022
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Constitutional; religious zoning regulations: Where a church was aware of zoning restrictions when it purchased property, it could not have had a reasonable expectation of religious land use, dooming its claim under ...
Read More »March 30, 2022 Comments Off on With at least one GOP vote, Jackson likely to be confirmed to Supreme Court
Maine Sen. Susan Collins said she will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, all but assuring she will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
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Read More »March 30, 2022 Comments Off on Law clerks’ journal articles should not mention judge, Md. ethics panel says
Judges may permit their law clerks to submit law journal articles for publication so long as the author’s affiliation with the jurist goes unmentioned in the submission, the Maryland Judicial Ethics Committee stated in a published opinion this month. The ...
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Read More »March 30, 2022 Comments Off on Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is named for the Black teenager whose killing in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 became a galvanizing moment in the civil rights era.
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