Penn National Gaming Inc. appears to have a clear path to wage a campaign against a proposed Anne Arundel County casino after an attorney general’s opinion paved the way this week. The company has made no secret of its desire ...

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Monday sued the three largest U.S. credit card companies for anticompetitive practices and reached a proposed settlement with two of them, MasterCard and Visa. “We want to put more money in consumers’ pockets, and ...

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State auditors are asking the attorney general’s office to consider criminal prosecution of a management employee of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services who used his government credit card to spend $56,303 on a vendor he had a ...

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HARTFORD — State attorneys general nationwide are demanding that Craigslist remove its adult services section because they say the website cannot adequately block potentially illegal ads. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Tuesday that he and colleagues in 16 states ...

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The kids are back to school and you’re at work. Take a minute to check out some law links to start the week. Copyright laws might prevent public consumption of the Savory collection — a treasure trove of jazz recordings ...

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Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler might soon be getting a call from Gov. Martin O’Malley, if he hasn’t already received one, seeking a campaign donation. The governor, in his solicitation, might raise the following points: Gansler is running unopposed ...

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The missive Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and 10 of his East Coast colleagues sent Monday to embattled British Petroleum reads like the proverbial lawyer’s letter subtly threatening litigation if the Gulf of Mexico oil spill spreads to the ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler is filing for re-election. Gansler is scheduled to officially file with the Maryland State Board of Elections on Thursday morning. So far, no opponents have filed to run against Gansler, either in the ...

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Call this a case of The Magnificent Seven meets All in the Family. Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, the junior jurist on Maryland’s seven-member Court of Appeals, dissented this week from the panel’s decision that police lacked probable cause to search ...

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ANNAPOLIS – An attempt to impeach Maryland’s attorney general devolved into a House of Delegates debate on parliamentary rules, leaving discussion of the impeachment itself to a House committee hearing later Wednesday afternoon. Del. Don H. Dwyer Jr., R-Anne Arundel, ...

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