A federal appeals court decision reviving hoteliers’ and restaurateurs’ claims of unconstitutional competition from President Donald Trump’s New York City properties has sparked controversy between attorneys for Maryland and the president over what the ruling means for the state’s similar ...

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President Donald Trump opposes review of a three-judge panel’s dismissal of Maryland’s claim that he has committed corruption of constitutional consequence in the handling of his hotel property in Washington. In papers filed Monday, U.S. Justice Department attorneys urged the ...

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A dozen law professors from outside Maryland are urging the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive the state’s lawsuit alleging corruption by President Donald Trump in the handling of his Washington hotel property. In papers filed Wednesday ...

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A federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed Maryland’s lawsuit alleging corruption by President Donald Trump in the handling of his hotel property in Washington. In a published 3-0 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that Maryland has ...

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Since March of 2017, the attorney general has unilaterally joined a lawsuit against the federal government more than 20 times thanks to a new state law.

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged a federal judge to stay, pending appeals, Maryland’s request for financial and other records as part of the state’s lawsuit alleging his corruption in the handling of his hotel property in Washington while chief executive.

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Maryland and the District of Columbia can pursue their lawsuit alleging corruption by President Donald Trump in the handling of his hotel property in Washington, as a federal judge said Wednesday the Constitution’s bar on presidential acceptance of “emoluments” must be read broadly.

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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh on Wednesday defended as apolitical efforts to protect Marylanders his office’s legal challenges to President Trump’s restrictions on immigration from majority-Muslim countries, the marketing of the president’s Washington hotel and his administration’s rollback of regulations ...

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President Donald Trump is asking a federal judge in Maryland to dismiss a lawsuit that argues that Trump's acceptance of payments from foreign and state governments at his Washington hotel violates the Constitution.

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President Donald Trump will have to contend for now with a lawsuit claiming he is improperly profiting from his posh downtown Washington hotel.

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