You might’ve heard that the U.S. Supreme Court is making a lot of big decisions this week. But on this, the first Monday of the summer, we’ve dug deep to find you other tidbits from the legal blogosphere. — This ...

Tagged with: California Supreme Court department of justice discipline law blog roundup Supreme Court

PHILADELPHIA — National homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc. will pay a $741,000 fine and implement changes in managing stormwater runoff at its home construction sites, federal officials announced Wednesday. Maryland and Virginia have joined the settlement and will receive a portion ...

Tagged with: clean air act department of justice environmental protection agency EPA runoff stormwater toll brothers united states

Dean Ronald Weich officially begins his term as dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law next month facing many daunting challenges and many more opportunities. As the legal community gathers for the Annual Meeting of the Maryland State ...

Tagged with: department of justice senate judiciary committee university of baltimore school of law

RICHMOND, Va. — SunTrust Mortgage Inc. has agreed to pay $21 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in its lending practices, the second-largest fair lending settlement ever obtained by the U.S. Department of Justice. A complaint filed ...

Tagged with: bias complaint department of justice federal reserve lawsuit Settlement

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county’s challenge to the landmark civil rights law. The provision requires state, county and local governments with a history of ...

Tagged with: Chief Justice John Roberts department of justice U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld voting rights act

Superblock firm gets extension City officials Wednesday have given developers of the $150 million Superblock project on downtown’s West Side until Dec. 31 to line up financing and retail tenants. This is the second extension for the firm, Lexington Square ...

Tagged with: department of justice dna First Mariner Fracking hagerstown Human Genome Sciences Inc. Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission maryland court of appeals Montgomery County ronald weich superblock Transportation university of baltimore school of law Week in Review

WASHINGTON — Several Supreme Court justices seemed troubled Tuesday at the thought of letting a lawsuit move forward that aims to shut down an already opened tribal casino in southwestern Michigan. “It does seem that we may be wasting our ...

Tagged with: casino department of justice justices Slots Supreme Court U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals united states washington

NEW ORLEANS — A BP engineer intentionally deleted more than 300 text messages that said the company’s efforts to control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were failing, and that the amount of oil leaking was far more than what ...

Tagged with: arrest BP deepwater horizon department of justice feds gulf of mexico new orleans oil spill

FORT MEADE — A military judge said Tuesday that she wants to see several federal agencies’ assessments of the damage caused by WikiLeaks’ publication of government secrets. Army Col. Denise Lind ordered prosecutors during a pretrial hearing to provide the ...

Tagged with: army chelsea manning cia court-martialed crime department of justice discovery documents fort meade leak pretrial hearing private State Department u.s. department of defense wikileaks

NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless on Wednesday said it will auction a parcel of radio frequencies, which could be worth billions of dollars in an industry scrambling to offer consumers more cellular broadband. The offer is contingent on Verizon getting ...

Tagged with: cable companies carriers department of justice federal communications commission Verizon Wireless