The best videos on America’s Funniest Home Videos are also the worst ones. That is, some guy is getting hit in the groin. They’re the best because they never fail to make me laugh—and because it’s happening to someone else. ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from a former Tennessee poultry farmer who sued Tyson Farms after losing his contract to raise their chickens. The justices did not comment in turning away Alton Terry, who ...

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A decision Friday by Maryland’s top court means rapper Sandra “Pepa” Denton will not get back a Baltimore duplex that was sold by a friend of her ex-husband who falsely claimed he was an officer of her real estate investment ...

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WASHINGTON — Verizon Communications Inc. on Thursday filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic flowing over their networks. In a filing in federal appeals court in the District of Columbia, ...

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Baltimore County must pay nearly $700,000 for breaching a contract with a fuel supplier, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Wednesday. The county argued it did not have a valid contract with Petroleum Traders Corp. because neither the ...

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BOSTON, MA — In his later years on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens was not afraid to voice his objection to a certiorari denial in the form of a written dissent or statement accompanying ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a federal death row prisoner who wants the courts to consider evidence that one federal judge said “is virtually guaranteed” to show the inmate is mentally retarded and thus ...

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Administrative Law Timeliness of appeal BOTTOM LINE: Former commissioner’s petition for an administrative hearing to appeal Agency’s denial of retirement benefits was properly rejected by Agency as time barred because petition was filed more than 180 days after Agency gave ...

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A U.S. appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an $800,000 race discrimination case against the Maryland Judiciary, saying the fired worker’s “conclusory” complaint failed to allege facts that would indicate an unlawful act occurred. Daniel Coleman’s bias complaint failed ...

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Administrative Law, Timeliness of appeal: Petition for an administrative hearing was properly rejected as time barred because it was filed more than 180 days after notice of the agency’s final decision. Carven v. State Retirement & Pension System of Maryland, ...

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