HARRISBURG, Pa. — Lawyers representing farm groups and home builders asked a judge to block a federal plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, arguing that it tramples on state’s rights and uses erroneous data to set pollution limits. The ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s top jurist will be speaking to students at a high school in Annapolis. Robert M. Bell, the chief judge of Maryland’s Court of Appeals, will be talking to students at Annapolis High School on Friday. He’s taking ...

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LIVINGSTON, Texas — What Cleve Foster remembers most about his recent brushes with death is the steel door, the last one condemned Texas inmates typically walk through before their execution. “You can’t take your eyes off that door,” he says. ...

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Although she spent 14 years on Maryland’s highest court, retired Court of Appeals Judge Irma S. Raker says one of her most memorable decisions came in a sex discrimination case she heard as a Montgomery County circuit judge in 1984.

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The U.S. magistrate judge’s chambers in Salisbury have survived the budgetary wrecking ball — at least, for now, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said Tuesday.

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GREENBELT — Prosecutors say a Virginia woman has pleaded guilty to government fraud which netted her and her husband more than $100,000. Forty-eight-year-old Karen Strayer of Lovettsville, Va. entered the plea Tuesday. She faces a maximum term of one year ...

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Administrative Law, Private cause of action: TP §21-809, which authorizes the use of speed monitoring systems on certain roads, does not provide an express or implied private cause of action in tort.Baker v. Montgomery County, No. 124, September Term, 2011. ...

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Administrative Law Private cause of action BOTTOM LINE: TP §21-809, which authorizes the use of speed monitoring systems on certain roads, does not provide an express or implied private cause of action in tort. CASE: Baker v. Montgomery County, No. ...

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Our system is not perfect, but it is unbelievably impressive in many ways. This, I think, is one of them. ...

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal appeals court has ruled that part of Alabama’s tough immigration law that ordered public schools to check the citizenship status of new students is unconstitutional. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the ...

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