U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Civil Procedure; Standing: Where homeowners acknowledged that the closing fees for the purchase of their home were reasonable, their lawsuit against their real estate agents, which was filed several years after they ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Civil Procedure; Class action: Where individuals who had assigned structured settlement benefits filed a class action against the assignees of those benefits seeking civil damages on the ground that the assignments were the product of fraud ...

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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Administrative Law; Regulatory sanctions: The disciplinary sanctions imposed by the Maryland Securities Commissioner on an individual for over 1,000 violations of the Maryland Securities Act, including revocation of the individual’s investment adviser representative registration, permanent bar from ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Immigration Law; Detention during withholding proceedings: Where deported aliens who returned to the United States and were subject to reinstated removal orders pursued withholding of removal based on fear of persecution in ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Inconsistent verdicts: Where indictment charged defendant with robbery, second-degree assault, and theft, and jury returned a guilty verdict on the robbery and theft charges and a not guilty verdict on the second-degree assault charge, ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Workers’ Compensation; Awards: The Workers’ Compensation Commission had the authority to reopen claimant’s award of permanent partial disability compensation and retroactively increase his rate of compensation because Section 9-736(a) of the Labor and Employment Article, the ...

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Court of Appeals Criminal Law; Gross negligence manslaughter: Where defendant’s underlying act of distribution of heroin, which resulted in his buyer’s death from overdose, was inherently dangerous, the circumstances surrounding his sale—including that the victim was desperate for heroin, the victim ...

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Court of Special Appeals Criminal Law; Restitution: In sentencing the defendant for convictions for threatening arson and possessing a firearm after a disqualifying conviction, the sentencing court did not err in ordering restitution of $2,400, representing first month’s rent and ...

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Court of Appeals Family Law; Termination of parental rights: A juvenile court abused its discretion when it declined to find both parents of a child unfit and to terminate parental rights even though it found that the parents were unable ...

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Court of Special Appeals Criminal Procedure; Sentencing: Where the defendant’s sentence was legal at the time that he filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence, the circuit court erred in granting the motion. State v. Bratt, No. 874, Sept. ...

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