A lawsuit against a class of defendants in Montgomery County may be the first and last of its kind for the foreseeable future after the Court of Appeals voted to bar defendant class actions beginning June 1. After the lawsuit ...

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Baltimore joined plaintiffs from around the country this week by filing a federal lawsuit in New York alleging a price-fixing conspiracy by banks that purchase and sell debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The city’s potential class-action suit is ...

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Baltimore filed a potential class action lawsuit in New York Monday against a group of banks the city says conspired to fix interest rates of variable rate demand obligations, or VRDOs. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the ...

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A proposed class-action suit filed in Baltimore Tuesday seeks to collect damages against a bail bond company and its agents whom the plaintiffs say used Maryland courts to obtain judgments under an unlicensed trade name. The suit names 4 Aces Bail ...

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A class action lawsuit filed in Connecticut last week suggests Poland Spring, the No. 1 selling bottled water in the country, might be no better than tap water. “Not one drop of Poland Spring Water emanates from a water source ...

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A proposed class action lawsuit filed by victims of a fatal crash between a Baltimore school bus and commuter bus that initially was removed to federal court returned to state court last month after a federal judge granted the plaintiffs’ request to remand ...

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Victims of a fatal crash between a Baltimore school bus and a commuter bus filed a class-action suit in Baltimore City Circuit Court on Thursday seeking damages from the school bus company and its medical certification company. The November crash killed ...

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A local towing company has been accused of “cultivating a Wild West towing practice” in Baltimore city parking lots in a potential class-action lawsuit. Greenwood Towing Co. has repeatedly violated the Maryland Towing Act, which requires authorization from the parking ...

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A fifth federal lawsuit has been filed in Maryland against Volkswagen in the wake of the company announcing its diesel vehicles contained software to fool emissions tests. The potential class-action lawsuit seeks to represent current or former Maryland owners of ...

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A class of Maryland Volkswagen owners filed suit against the automaker last week with allegations of violations of Maryland’s Consumer Protection Act, fraud, unjust enrichment and civil conspiracy. The lawsuit is one of dozens being filed across the country — ...

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