In his cozy office on West Hamilton Street, George W. Liebmann leans forward in his chair and grins broadly as he talks about former Maryland Gov. Albert Ritchie taking a stand against Prohibition that no other governor was willing to ...

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WASHINGTON — Tourists and Washingtonians were about to get their first up-close look Monday at the memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The site was set to open without fanfare around 11 a.m. to kick off a week ...

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McLEAN, Va. — The calls have reached a point of repetitive regularity for civil rights lawyer Gadeir Abbas: A young Muslim American, somewhere in the world, is barred from boarding an airplane. The exact reasons are never fully articulated, but ...

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Civil Rights Reasonableness of use of force BOTTOM LINE: In lawsuit against police officers arising from the officer’s execution of a search warrant, district court did not abuse its discretion by failing to give plaintiffs’ requested jury instructions because, reviewed ...

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Welcome back. Here’s a rundown of what’s happening in the legal world: In civil suit, the lawyer repping the man killed by Baltimore City Police Officer Ghaiji Tshamba will focus on the officer’s disciplinary record. Banks continue to be in ...

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Friday morning on NPR I heard a story that reminded me of a situation in Maryland last year involving a person taking video of police officers in action. Khaliah Fitchette, a teenage girl in Newark, N.J., was riding the bus ...

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BOSTON — An outspoken advocate for an Army private accused of funneling classified documents to Wikileaks filed suit Friday, claiming federal agents illegally seized confidential information from him at a Chicago airport. David House, a founding member of The Bradley ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s prison system did not violate a Muslim inmate’s religious rights when it refused to allow him to grow a 1/8-inch beard, which he believes is required by his religion, a federal judge has ruled. William Couch, ...

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Opponents of the proposed Superblock redevelopment have filed another lawsuit to stop the project, this time alleging approved demolition plans would violate a historic preservation agreement. The lawsuit says J. Rodney Little, director of the Maryland Historical Trust, exceeded his ...

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In my last column, I sounded an alarm about the rise of Islamophobia in the United States, calling attempts in various states to pass anti-Shariah legislation an attack on religious freedom. That inspired a good number of irate readers to ...

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