MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Professional Responsibility, Indefinite suspension: Court of Appeals suspended indefinitely an attorney who violated Maryland Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct by failing to communicate the scope of his representation and the amount of time billed to a ...

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Professional Responsibility Indefinite suspension  BOTTOM LINE: Court of Appeals suspended indefinitely an attorney who violated Maryland Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct by failing to communicate the scope of his representation and the amount of time billed to a client, failing ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Criminal Law, Trademark counterfeiting: Maryland counterfeiting statute which prohibits, among other things, the willful display of goods that have “retail value” and bear a counterfeit mark, is neither facially overbroad nor facially void-for-vagueness. McCree v. State, ...

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Civil Procedure Law of the Case Doctrine   BOTTOM LINE: County was barred from challenging the circuit court’s arbitration award to a county police union because the issues challenged by the county on the present appeal had previously been decided ...

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Criminal Law Trademark counterfeiting   BOTTOM LINE: Maryland counterfeiting statute which prohibits, among other things, the willful display of goods that have “retail value” and bear a counterfeit mark, is neither facially overbroad nor facially void-for-vagueness.   CASE: McCree v. ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Evidence, Expert testimony: Trial court erred by allowing a police officer, who was not qualified as an expert under Maryland Rule 5-702, to testify as to the location of the cell phone towers through which the ...

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Contracts Parol evidence  BOTTOM LINE: In a case involving a dispute over a landlord’s contractual right to terminate a long-term commercial lease and to require the tenants to renegotiate the terms, the circuit court correctly found that a lease termination ...

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COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS  Administrative Law, State construction projects: State properly concluded that it could consider a novel specification, the inclusion of a Project Labor Agreement, as one factor when evaluating technical proposals for a State construction project without triggering ...

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Administrative Law State construction projects  BOTTOM LINE: State properly concluded that it could consider a novel specification, the inclusion of a Project Labor Agreement, as one factor when evaluating technical proposals for a State construction project without triggering the rulemaking ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Criminal Procedure, DNA evidence: Under the plain meaning of a Maryland Public Safety statute providing that a match between a DNA evidence sample and a data base entry may be used only as probable cause and ...

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