A Howard County jury awarded $150,000 — including $37,000 in punitive damages — to a tenant whose landlord repeatedly failed to address mold contamination for nearly a year. The jury found Port Capital Village Limited Partnership liable for breach of ...

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Baltimore city moved to dismiss a lawsuit over a city code section that allows an eviction to proceed with no notice, arguing the plaintiffs’ claims “have no legal merit.” Marshall Todman and Tiffany Gattis filed suit in U.S. District Court ...

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Two Baltimore renters filed a federal lawsuit Friday alleging a city code that allowed a landlord to seize their property in an eviction with no notice is unconstitutional.

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A rare class action against a group of defendants for alleged illegal debt collection practices was dismissed last month, but the plaintiffs will ask the Court of Special Appeals to revive it. The lawsuit, filed earlier this year in Baltimore City Circuit Court, alleged ...

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A Baltimore property management group will establish a $524,000 fund to repay tenants for overcharged legal fees associated with failure to pay rent cases as part of a class settlement reached last month. The settlement against Virginia-based Harbor Group Management ...

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School seeks to block publication leads news items including quadruple-murder trial, $2.5 million landlord-tenant settlement and justices file a petition.

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A potential class-action lawsuit against the property management companies owned by Jared Kushner's family will proceed after a Baltimore judge preserved most of the claims.

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Two Maryland renters filed a proposed class-action lawsuit Wednesday alleging the property management companies owned by Jared Kushner’s family’s real estate company operating their apartment complexes charge excessive and illegal fees. Westminster Management LLC and its affiliated businesses own some ...

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