It’s coming. Beginning next fall, every student entering Maryland law schools is likely to take a Next Generation Bar Examination following graduation. In fact, there are some students already in law school whose future licensure may be determined by their ...

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Speaking at Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty initiative in Rome, Justice Samuel Alito, the author of Dobbs v. Jackson, used the event to attack foreign leaders who criticized his decision. He did so by mocking them and cracking jokes. ...

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What happens when a citizen of a state that bans abortions seeks an abortion that is perfectly legal in another state, such as Maryland? In his concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Brett Kavanaugh dismissed the ...

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The final days of the Supreme Court’s recently concluded term brought several significant constitutional decisions, including Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which overturned Roe v. Wade, and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District which “abandoned” Lemon v. Kurtzman. Notwithstanding the ...

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A 20-year-old who is partying with friends learns that they want to rob a local drug dealer. He lends them his car and then goes to sleep after giving them the keys. A person is accidentally killed during that robbery ...

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In June, the LGBTQ+ community and its allies across the country hold community parades, festivals and other activities to come together in a safe space to recognize and affirm the gay community and to celebrate the protections that have been ...

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The Baltimore City Council recently demanded that Police Commissioner Michael Harrison present a hasty plan detailing how the police will make the city safer. The commissioner complied in short order and told the council there would be, in essence, a ...

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As we mentioned last week, there are a few bills that did not make it through the recently concluded General Assembly session that we hope lawmakers will take a second look at next year. Please revisit: SB 265/HB 559 — ...

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Now that the dust has cleared on the 2022 legislative session, the Editorial Advisory Board of The Daily Record would like to recognize a few bills that we were particularly happy to see passed. Next week, we’ll urge the General ...

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This spring marks the end of Donald Tobin’s eight-year tenure as dean of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Tobin joined the law school at time of great turmoil, both internally, as the 2008 recession led ...

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