A company mounting a constitutional challenge to Baltimore’s tax on commercial billboard operators hopes a recent Ohio high court decision striking down a similar Cincinnati assessment will convince the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its claim that the Maryland city’s ...

Tagged with: billboards first amendment free press free speech viewpoint neutral

Baltimore’s tax on commercial billboard operators does not violate their constitutional right to free speech as the assessment applies regardless of the messages they post, the city argued last week in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to decline to hear ...

Tagged with: billboards first amendment free speech Taxation viewpoint neutral

Baltimore’s chief attorney violated the constitutional rights of an organization critical of the Catholic Church by essentially preventing its members from peacefully protesting the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ convention in the city this November, the group alleges in a ...

Tagged with: Catholic Church free exercise free speech St. Michael's Media U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

The animal rights group PETA argues the Salisbury area transit agency violated its constitutional right to free speech by rejecting its request to post “Close the slaughterhouses” signs on public buses.

Tagged with: animal rights Eastern Shore first amendment free speech PETA public forum slaughterhouses

A federal appeals court rejected on procedural grounds a psychotherapist’s free speech challenge to Maryland’s ban on treating youngsters with conversion therapy.

Tagged with: Brian Frosh conversion therapy first amendment free speech Larry Hogan

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh will appeal a federal judge’s decision permitting gun rights advocates arrested during a peaceful protest near the State House three years ago to sue the arresting Maryland Capitol Police officer for allegedly violating their ...

Tagged with: first amendment fourth amendment free speech gun rights protest qualified immunity

Gun rights advocates arrested by a Maryland Capitol Police officer during a peaceful protest near the State House three years ago can pursue their lawsuit alleging their constitutional rights to speak freely and be free of unreasonable seizure were violated, ...

Tagged with: first amendment fourth amendment free speech gun rights protest qualified immunity Second Amendment Summary judgment

Counsel for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan told a federal appeals court Thursday that his order requiring bidders for state contracts to forswear boycotts against Israel does not violate the constitutional right of a software engineer seeking government work to freely ...

Tagged with: BDS free speech israel Larry Hogan palestinians Saqib Ali state contracts

A software engineer and former Maryland legislator has urged a federal appeals court to revive his free-speech challenge to Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order requiring those bidding on state contracts to pledge they are not boycotting Israel and will not ...

Tagged with: BDS free speech israel palestinians state contracts

Maryland public school teachers who declined to join the state labor union but were statutorily compelled to pay a representation fee are not entitled to a refund on the money they paid before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the compelled ...

Tagged with: Abood v. Detroit Board of Education compelled speech first amendment free speech Janus v. AFSCME Maryland State Education Association teachers unions