Administrative Law Evidence at police trial board hearing  BOTTOM LINE: The police department, in a disciplinary proceeding of an officer, did not violate the rights of the officer by failing to disclose certain information regarding the FBI’s investigation of another ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Administrative Law, Public utilities deregulation: In establishing a rate stabilization plan to further the transition to a competitive market for electricity supply, the legislature did not intend for credits and charges to affect the electric company’s ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS  Criminal Law, Assault: Where defendant fired a gun into victims’ home, evidence was sufficient for conviction of assault even though victims were not home at the time, since defendant manifested an intent to harm them ...

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Civil Procedure Preliminary injunction  BOTTOM LINE: District court properly granted plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction because plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits of their ADA and Rehabilitation Act claims, and district court did not abuse its discretion ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Constitutional Law, Ex Post Facto: The retroactive application of the sex offender registration statute to defendant, convicted in 2005 for a sex offense committed in 1984, violated the prohibition against ex post facto laws because, while ...

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Environmental law Public notice requirement  BOTTOM LINE: In prosecution of defendant for illegal use of hydraulic clam dredge in an submerged aquatic vegetation protection zone, Maryland Department of Natural Resources was required to prove as element of its case its ...

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Environmental law, Public notice requirement: In prosecution of defendant for illegal use of hydraulic clam dredge in an submerged aquatic vegetation protection zone, Maryland Department of Natural Resources was required to prove as element of its case its compliance with ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Insurance, Uninsured/PIP coverage offset by workers’ compensation benefits: An insured’s benefits payable under uninsured motorist coverage and personal injury protection coverage “shall be reduced” to the extent that the insured recovered benefits under workers’ compensation and ...

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Constitutional Law Professional speech doctrine  BOTTOM LINE: County ordinances, which required any person doing business as a “fortune teller” to obtain a business license and imposed fines for failure to do so, did not violate plaintiff’s First Amendment right to ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Civil Procedure, Collateral attack in different circuit: Since circuit court did not possess jurisdiction to review, modify, or invalidate a final judgment entered by another circuit court, a final judgment could not be attacked collaterally in ...

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