A Baltimore judge denied post-trial motions filed by Miles & Stockbridge PC seeking to set aside or reduce a $231,000 verdict against the firm in a breach of contract suit brought by a former equity partner.

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An Olney man injured in a vehicle collision in 2011 has elected to accept a drastically reduced damages award rather than challenge the reduction or have a new trial after a judge ruled last month that the jury’s award “shocked the conscience.” ...

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Union members alleging harm by their colleagues need not exhaust the organization’s internal dispute procedures but can head straight to court if money damages are unavailable under the union’s process, Maryland’s top court said in affirming a transit worker’s $425,000 defamation award against his union local and its president.

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1. Whether the circuit court erred in admitting testimony that appellant underwent a neuropsychological evaluation for the purpose of obtaining disability benefits through the Social Security Administration. 2. Whether the circuit court erred in declining to give a jury instruction on susceptibility.

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In a motor tort case on the question of damages only, appellant claims the trial court improperly instructed the jury and failed to provide him with post-trial relief with respect to the adequacy of the damage award.

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After homeowners accepted $54,000 in damages on their nuisance claim for diminution in property value due to successive sewage overflows, their claim for future overflows was barred by res judicata.

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The biological warfare defense firm that makes the only treatment for smallpox in the U.S. government’s strategic drug stockpile filed for bankruptcy, claiming a victory by an Annapolis-based rival in a contract dispute is endangering its ability to produce the ...

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The NFL agreed Wednesday to remove a $675 million cap on damages from thousands of concussion-related claims after a federal judge questioned whether there would be enough money to cover as many as 20,000 retired players.

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In a case that could greatly raise the liability stakes for cities and counties across Maryland, the state’s highest court will decide how much Prince George’s County owes the family of a man who was killed by a police officer: the $11.5 million a jury awarded, or the $400,000 the judge ultimately ordered.

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After Baltimore City Circuit Judge Stephen J. Sfekas admitted he had jumped the gun Friday by throwing out a $1.3 million jury verdict without holding a hearing, he warned the plaintiffs’ lawyers to consider his oral ruling a “blueprint of my opinion.”

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