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The City of Baltimore and its police commissioner have asked the circuit court to determine whether the Local Government Tort Claims Act caps its liability at $500,000 in a $1.1 billion police misconduct lawsuit that’s set for trial this month.“The ...

A federal judge has denied Beretta USA Corp.’s bid to stem its possible losses from lawsuits by municipalities across the country. The Accokeek-based small-arms manufacturer took its insurers, Great Northern Insurance Co. and Federal Insurance Co., to U.S. District Court ...

An attorney is suing a partner at her former firm on allegations that he made “false and defamatory” statements that “damaged and destroyed” her 19-year career in the U.S. Army Reserve and could cost her the security clearance she needs ...

The Court of Special Appeals yesterday affirmed the conviction of a Baltimore City police officer who took $100 from a Hispanic man in December 1998.Dorian J. Martin admitted taking the money, but claimed he had done so inadvertently.In a press ...

Federal Bar-Bench Conference Set in GreenbeltBecause 1998’s get-together of federal judges and attorneys was such a success, they’re doing it again. The Second Bar-Bench Conference at the U.S. Courthouse, Southern District, in Greenbelt will be held Friday, Oct. 20, from ...

Back to School – With a CauseMSBA Program to Prevent ViolenceLast year, more than 10,500 Maryland school students were physically attacked at school, 2,679 were suspended for carrying weapons and 34,974 were suspended for physical attacks, threats and fighting, the ...

A Delaware man who bought a chain of eight formal-wear stores from a Maryland family has sued the sellers on allegations of fraud, but one of the defendants says the plaintiff is only trying to retaliate for confessed judgments of ...

A federal judge has given Rite Aid Corp. 20 days to produce information that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requested in the course of investigating allegations of workplace discrimination in several of its local stores.Yesterday, the parties received the order ...

A $500,000 medical malpractice verdict in favor of a paraplegic whose legs had to be amputated above the knee was affirmed yesterday by the Court of Special Appeals.“This is wonderful news,” attorney Kathleen Howard Meredith said of the Court of ...

Former Ravens Player Sued in Club Rent DisputeHaving smoothed his medical neighbors’ ruffled feathers over a year ago, former Ravens wide receiver Michael D. Jackson is back in court over the jazz club he has proposed opening at 12 N. ...