ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court Friday held its first public session with a name other than the Court of Appeals, as it had been called since 1776. “Welcome to the Supreme Court of Maryland,” Chief Justice Matthew J. Fader said ...

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Change is coming to the Maryland Judiciary on Dec. 14.

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Maryland’s Court of Special Appeals vacated a woman’s expungement in a decade-old identity fraud case, ruling that a “good cause” provision in the state law designed to shield old criminal convictions does not give judges the authority to grant expungement ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Administrative; stare decisis: Where the court previously ruled on the Maryland Department of the Environment’s authority to develop and issue permits to municipal separate storm sewer systems, or MS4s, in Maryland, there no “significant change in ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Consumer Protection; Absent class member: Where 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) provides a magistrate judge with jurisdiction to approve a class action and enter judgment only by consent of the parties, the Fourth ...

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday nominated Rockville attorney Rosalyn Tang to the state’s second-highest court.

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will likely choose the next judge on the state’s second highest court from among three trial judges and four attorneys.

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Five judges and five attorneys have applied for the Montgomery County seat on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, which was left vacant last month when Gov. Larry Hogan elevated Judge Steven B. Gould to the Court of Appeals. The ...

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will likely choose the next judge on the state’s second highest court from among a trial judge and three attorneys. The Appellate Judicial Nominating Commission has forwarded to Hogan’s desk as candidates for a Court of ...

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Three judges and seven attorneys have applied for the Maryland Court of Special Appeals seat left vacant this year when Judge Timothy E. Meredith stepped down from the state’s second-highest court. The judges who have applied are Laura S. Ripken ...

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