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 exceed $15,000. The effect of the increase, an amendment to ...

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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 precincts reporting, Asti held a lead of 33.67 percent to ...

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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 been distributing flyers to voters, accusing Anne Arundel County Circuit ...

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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 has bounced around the legal system like a game of ...

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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 in agreement with the Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition. These unusual ...

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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 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The state attorney general’s ...

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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 hair will help him win freedom. The hair strand was ...

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