Runner loses bid to compete with prostheses
Welcome to Monday, the 139th anniversary of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Here are some news items to get your week started. — American runner who uses prosthetic legs loses appeal of Olympics proportion. — George Floyd’s family attorney joins another death-in-custody lawsuit. — Texas Supreme Court grants posthumous bar admission to Black man […]
Baltimore attorney disbarred following omission on bar application
Maryland’s top court has disbarred a Baltimore attorney for failing to disclose on his bar application a trial court found he acted in bad faith during a civil case in a prior career as an investigative reporter. The Court of Appeals found Gregory Allen Slate broke multiple rules of the Maryland Lawyers’ Rules of Professional […]
Md. bar applicant who lied on law school resume denied admission
The Court of Appeals has denied bar admission to an applicant who failed to disclose a prior criminal charge of felony theft on her bar application and intentionally falsified her grade point average on a law school resume. Despite narrow votes in favor of Deirdre Paulette Brown’s admission to the bar by both the State […]