M&T Bank violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide the reasonable accommodation of reassignment for a Baltimore branch manager after she took short-term disability leave during her complicated pregnancy, a federal judge has ruled. But U.S. District ...
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A Talbot County jury awarded $150,000 in damages to an Easton woman Thursday for a botched procedure that caused her to have an emergency hysterectomy and to lose a kidney. Barbara McCloy was 73 when she went to the University ...
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After being nominated twice, and after months of waiting, Judge Stephanie Gallagher was confirmed to the U.S. District Court in Baltimore by the Senate Wednesday. Gallagher, who has been a magistrate judge with the court since 2011, fills a vacancy ...
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Baltimore County is asking a federal judge to narrow the class of county employees entitled to damages in an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission age discrimination case. The county owes more than a decade of back pay to some of its employees ...
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A Mechanicsville man filed a potential class action lawsuit against a St. Mary’s County law firm Tuesday claiming the firm violated federal debt collection laws in communications to consumers. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, alleges Dugan, McKissick & ...
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit Wednesday against a Wheaton Ford dealership for alleged racial, sexual and national origin-based harassment of a former employee. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, claims a supervisor at Lindsay ...
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A 2014 candidate for Baltimore City sheriff was charged with campaign finance violations Friday by the Office of the State Prosecutor. Richard Parker, 41, of Gwynn Oak, was a Democratic challenger to longtime Sheriff John W. Anderson in the 2014 ...
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ANNAPOLIS — Baltimore prosecutors are preparing to file nearly 800 motions to vacate convictions that relied significantly on testimony from corrupt police officers under a new law that takes effect Oct. 1. Deputy State’s Attorney Janice Bledsoe told the Court ...
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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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A judicial discipline panel on Tuesday recommended an additional three-month suspension for a currently suspended Baltimore City District Court judge. The Court of Appeals suspended Judge Devy Patterson Russell for six months on July 1 and ordered her to have a ...
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