Whether a victim of human trafficking was a minor must be proven and not presumed in order for the convicted trafficker’s name to be placed on the Maryland Sex Offender Registry, the state’s second-highest court has ruled in keeping an ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A new Maryland law empowering courts to remove firearms from people found to be a threat to others or themselves has prevented violence while preserving the due-process rights of gun owners, law enforcement and judicial officials told a ...

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Montgomery County did not violate a developer’s constitutional rights by adopting a water system amendment to a master zoning plan, changes that devalued the planned development, a federal appeals court ruled last week. In its reported 3-0 decision, the 4th ...

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Baltimore County did not violate the constitutional rights of hookah-lounge owners by requiring them to close their establishments by midnight each night, Maryland’s second-highest court ruled Wednesday. In its reported 3-0 decision, the Court of Special Appeals called the ordinance ...

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Maryland’s recently enacted ban on attachments that enable guns to fire more rapidly will remain in effect after a federal judge last week rejected arguments from gun-rights advocates that the law is unconstitutional. Citing a mass slaying at an outdoor ...

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A civil litigant’s right to due process was not violated when she was ordered to pay a punitive damages award 20 times greater than the amount assessed to compensate the victim of her defamatory actions, Maryland’s second-highest court ruled last ...

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An arrest in Austin, Texas, leads news summary including an appeal in Myanmar, a request to leave Pakistan and a judge's effort to ward off political attacks.

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A unanimous Maryland high court Thursday refused to reinstate a first-degree murder conviction in Baltimore, saying the judge violated the defendant’s due-process rights by reopening the trial – on his own motion – so the state could present damaging palm-print ...

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Landowners in Chesapeake Beach have alleged a local ordinance limiting new construction near steep slopes, passed over the summer following a series of mudslides, violates their state and federal constitutional rights.

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Maryland’s ban on bump stocks went into effect Monday as the legal battle over the gun law’s constitutionality has shown no sign of slowing down in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

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