The Baltimore Board of Estimates is poised to approve a $125,000 settlement in the case of a pregnant woman who was forcibly arrested, jailed and prosecuted after intervening in a police investigation of a beating she witnessed outside her East ...

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It took more than three years and three major edits, but Baltimore’s mortgage discrimination lawsuit against banking giant Wells Fargo has finally survived a defense motion to dismiss the case. In an opinion published Friday by the U.S. District Court, ...

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A Baltimore jury has awarded just $1 to one of four city men who were frisked and detained for about an hour in a Westside bar while a half-dozen police arrested another patron on charges that were dropped later. The ...

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A Glen Burnie snow removal company filed a $5.9 million lawsuit against Baltimore City on Wednesday, seeking to be paid for its work during last year’s historic snowstorms. The Delmarva Group Corp. had been trying unsuccessfully to get the money ...

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More than a year after the last defendant in a bid-rigging scheme admitted to his part in the multimillion-dollar conspiracy, Baltimore’s spending panel has been asked to debar him and his daughter to prevent them from participating in May’s tax-sale ...

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Two months into 2011, verdicts or settlements of lawsuits alleging misconduct by Baltimore police officers have cost the city more than $800,000. Settlements of such cases totaled more than $7.25 million from mid-2007 to mid-2010, and there were additional settlements ...

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Baltimore County’s lawsuit against several online hotel booking companies for allegedly unpaid hotel-room occupancy taxes has survived a motion to dismiss in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Judge Marvin J. Garbis granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ ...

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Continuing a trend that has cost Baltimore several million dollars in recent years, the city is expected to pay out another $290,000 this month to settle another pair of lawsuits alleging police misconduct. The first case, which settled during trial ...

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A Baltimore judge has slashed by nearly two-thirds a $600,000 jury award to a deputy sheriff who was arrested by a city police officer while both responded to a call concerning the mentally ill brother of the deputy’s friend in ...

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The Enoch Pratt Free Library’s $100,000 settlement of an employee’s disability discrimination lawsuit was approved by the Baltimore Board of Estimates Wednesday, but the agreement between the city library system and the woman will have to be modified to remove ...

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