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Justice decayed, answers to questions of feasbility delayed
Everyone agrees the Baltimore City Circuit Court buildings are “absolutely terrible” and that a new courthouse is in order, the city’s administrative judge declared at a meeting of city and […]
Asti defends fliers featuring opponent
Alison L. Asti’s Election Day endorsement of Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Laura Kiessling was meant to support Kiessling, not suggest that the two were running together on a […]
Small claims broadened as damages threshold raised for civil jury trials
Maryland voters have approved by a two-to-one margin an increase in the damages-claim threshold for civil jury trials in circuit court from claims in excess of $10,000 to those that […]
Asti holds lead in race for seat on Anne Arundel County Circuit Court
Alison L. Asti, a former Maryland State Bar Association president, has won in her bid to become an Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge. With 98.5 pecent of the county’s […]
Anne Arundel County judicial candidate complains of PAC’s campaigning
The only contested judicial general election in Maryland has turned nasty in its waning days. A month-old political action committee — Citizens for the Election of Qualified Judges — has […]
Supreme Court to hear violent video game case
LONG BEACH, Calif. — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over California’s proposed ban on the sale and rental of violent video games to children. The law, which […]
Election could raise threshold for civil cases in circuit court
Halloween may be over, but something strange is still happening in Maryland. The plaintiffs’ bar has found common ground with the Maryland Retailers Association, while the insurance industry finds itself […]
4th Circuit poised to hear foster-care case
A modified consent decree agreed to last year as part of a decades-old dispute over Baltimore‘s foster care system will be the subject of an appeal heard Wednesday by the […]
4th Circuit hears challenge to murder conviction
RICHMOND, Va. — A South Carolina man who spent 28 years on death row before getting his sentence changed to life in prison now hopes a single strand of blond […]
