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A Baltimore man will get a new trial because a trial judge erroneously allowed the state to introduce his child abuse conviction to impeach him on cross-examination, the Court of Special Appeals held yesterday. The intermediate appellate court vacated Howard ...

Prosecutors failed to establish a sufficient link between cocaine found in a sealed box in the trunk of an automobile and a front-seat passenger who claimed not to know the drugs were there, the Court of Appeals held yesterday.The decision ...

Spy suspect’s lawyer slams secret tunnel linkA lawyer for Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent accused of spying for Moscow, yesterday condemned reports saying Hanssen tipped off Russia to an eavesdropping tunnel below the Russian embassy in Washington. Plato Cacheris, ...

A law that requires premium-financing companies to give 10 days’ notice before canceling an auto insurance policy bars them from making the cancellation retroactive, the Court of Appeals held Friday. “[W]e have no doubt that, when the General Assembly provided ...

Appeals court overturns cable ownership limits A U.S. appeals court on Friday overturned federal rules limiting the number of cable customers one company can serve, handing a victory to AT&T Corp. and AOL Time Warner Inc. The companies challenged Federal ...

The Court of Special Appeals has snapped the cord of a proposed bungee jumping operation in Timonium, holding that the county cannot make a special exception for an activity that neither the law nor zoning regulations allows. The decision reported ...

The building that once housed the Springhill Market in Northwest Baltimore — a convenience store described by one judge as primarily a “convenience … to people who are selling narcotics” — got a new lease on life Friday, when the ...

Most attorneys nearing retirement assume that there is no need for professional liability insurance after they stop practicing law. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you’ve reached the stage in your career where you are planning to hang ...

A national labor-recruiting firm has earned a chance to prove its claims that a former employee violated an agreement not to compete, the Court of Special Appeals held Friday.The decision reverses a ruling by a Baltimore City judge, who granted ...

Chief Judge Robert M. Bell announced yesterday the appointment of an 18-member ad hoc committee to make recommendations that could lead to restricting access to court records.The new committee replaces a six-member committee of court-related personnel that conducted a hearing ...