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A manager who thought he had a better offer from another company can’t claim unemployment benefits based on his first position after quickly losing the new one, the Court of Appeals held Friday.The labor and employment law “is clearly written ...

A member of Frederick’s Historic District Commission resigned Wednesday following a dispute with city officials over whether he broke ethics rules by representing clients of his architectural firm before the commission.Two weeks ago, architect Gary D. Baker was fined $250 ...

Judge Smith Accepts Charge of City Civil DocketBaltimore City Circuit Court Judge Carol E. Smith will become judge-in-charge of the court’s civil docket. She will succeed Judge Gary I. Strausberg, who died in July. Smith was appointed by Administrative Judge ...

A surety who has a financial interest in the transaction underlying the obligations he guarantees is not a “compensated surety” under Maryland law, the Court of Appeals said last week in answering a certified question from the 3rd U.S. Circuit ...

A Baltimore County jury has convicted Donald Antonio White Jr. of felony murder for the death last February of off-duty police sergeant Bruce A. Prothero outside a Pikesville jewelry store.Some of Prothero’s family members sighed deeply and others wept as ...

The Court of Appeals has given an attorney, whose travel to have sex with underage girls he had met on the Internet got him in hot water with bar counsel, another chance to present his case.The state’s top court yesterday ...

Jacqueline Manikhi, who cleaned buses for the Mass Transit Administration in Baltimore and claimed she was sexually harassed by a co-worker over a four-year period, won a second chance yesterday from the state’s top court to bring several claims against ...

Wheelchair User’s Suit Against Bank to Proceed U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis has denied motions for summary judgment sought by both parties in the lawsuit filed by Jacqueline Speciner and MCIL Resources for Independent Living Inc. against NationsBank N.A. ...

A man who claims that he shouldn’t have to pay support for twin girls born 10 months after his marriage won a second chance yesterday to prove his case, as the state’s top court said the trial judge improperly focused ...

Charges filed against a man who had altered a photocopy of a judge’s letter were properly dismissed by the trial court, the Court of Appeals held yesterday. According to prosecutors, John E. Brantner Jr. took a routine notice of a ...