Much like the sacrifice bunt in baseball or the keytar in pop music, the federal appellate court oral argument is slowly fading away.

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Three Baltimore police officers charged in the Freddie Gray case are asking Maryland’s second-highest court to block the state from appealing a lower-court ruling barring another officer from testifying against them. Lawyers for Lt. Brian Rice and officers Garrett Miller ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Public schools and courts across the country will be closely watching a Virginia case for guidance on restroom policies about gender and gender identity, a lawyer for a transgender teenager said Wednesday after a hearing before a ...

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A proposed light rail system between Bethesda and New Carrollton cleared an obstacle Friday when Maryland’s top court unanimously held that a Chevy Chase resident does not own a section of property along the planned Purple Line. In its 7-0 ...

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In my last blog post, I wrote about the Maryland Rules addressing the broadcast of trial court proceedings and how there seems to be a presumption against such broadcast. Contrast that with another court in Judiciary, the Maryland Court of ...

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In the recent case of Fisher v. Ward, et al., the Maryland Court of Special Appeals held that a foreclosure trustee need not be physically present at a foreclosure sale, and that the trustee’s “constructive” presence would suffice.  Additionally, the ...

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In a case involving an accused double murderer, Maryland’s top court will consider how much deference appellate courts owe to a judge’s finding that evidence was collected in violation of a criminal defendant’s constitutional rights.

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A Maryland appellate panel has thrown out most of the $8 million in compensatory and punitive damages awarded to the former owner of a Rockville office building from a tenant who allegedly twice forced the landlord into foreclosure because of ...

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Maryland's chief public defender asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to review and overturn a state high court ruling that police acted constitutionally when they used the DNA sample a homeless man gave them for a rape investigation to link him to an unrelated burglary.

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