Scott Swafford has left Arnold & Porter LLP’s Washington office to open his own solo practice in Annapolis. His practice at A&P included litigation, government contracts, consumer protection, data security and privacy and telecommunications and also featured an extensive pro bono ...

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Last week, my cell phone started ringing incessantly. By “incessantly,” I mean every two seconds. The numbers that came through were not 10-digit numbers, but sometimes 15-to-20 digits. When I answered, the call disconnected. I called Verizon and was told there ...

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Harvard Law School professor and Obama administration official Elizabeth Warren will be in Baltimore on Thursday for a town hall meeting with U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings. Warren serves as a special adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury on the ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Civil Procedure, Continuance of trial: Trial court abused its discretion in denying a continuance of trial in order to accommodate plaintiff’s religious beliefs, which prohibited any appearance or advocacy on his behalf during a particular religious ...

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Consumer Protection Debt collection BOTTOM LINE: Defendant acted as a debt collector in the State of Maryland without a license and unlawfully filed lawsuits against plaintiffs as part of its debt collection practices, in violation of the Fair Debt Collection ...

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The Maryland Public Service Commission Wednesday grilled representatives of a third-party energy supplier that uses multilevel marketing over complaints of fraud and deceptive advertising. The PSC held the hearing to address complaints against North American Power and Gas Inc., of ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Consumer Protection New-home construction BOTTOM LINE: Although the evidence did not support the conclusion that a developer held itself out as a registered home builder, its new-home construction contracts violated the Consumer Protection Act by requiring ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Consumer Protection, New-home construction: Although the evidence did not support the conclusion that a developer held itself out as a registered home builder, its new-home construction contracts violated the Consumer Protection Act by requiring purchasers to ...

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The students in Peter Holland’s consumer protection law clinic preparing for trial finished Tuesday’s class practicing a cross-examination based on discrepancies in signed bank documents. Holland, on the witness stand as the person who signed the documents, answered questions about ...

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