The mother of a man who died after a violent encounter with Prince George's County police has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

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The city of Frederick and an animal rights activist have settled a First Amendment lawsuit that alleged police officers violated the man's free speech rights.

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Prince George’s County is suing a group of chemical companies for their handling of PFAS — also known as “forever chemicals” — that have been identified in Maryland’s waterways. PFAS — per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are found in many products, ...

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Maryland prison officials are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit that claimed putting incarcerated people with serious mental illness into extended solitary confinement violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The reply in U.S. ...

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is claiming in court that Henrietta Lacks’ family waited too long to sue for unjust enrichment claims.

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Blue Water Baltimore has filed a lawsuit on behalf of its members to compel enforcement of pollution regulations at Baltimore's wastewater treatment plants.

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Anne Arundel has moved to dismiss an excessive force lawsuit brought by a young Black man who said an officer kneeled on his neck after a traffic stop in 2019.

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A publishers’ association is suing Maryland over the state’s new e-book law that requires book publishers to sell public libraries licenses to the same digital content that other customers can purchase. Maryland’s law was a first-in-the-nation effort to force major ...

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A drug treatment facility has turned to the courts in an effort to open its doors — over the objections of Baltimore officials who denied a critical permit.

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A new federal lawsuit claims that Maryland prisons are unconstitutionally putting incarcerated people with serious mental illness into extended solitary confinement.

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