ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley won’t veto a bill that limits the time Maryland’s governor gets to make a decision to grant parole for an inmate sentenced to life in prison. O’Malley, a Democrat, announced Wednesday that he will allow ...

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DOVER, Del. — Gov. Jack Markell has signed legislation making Delaware the 16th state to allow the use of medical marijuana. Markell signed the bill Friday morning with no fanfare. The bill received final legislative approval Wednesday. A spokesman said ...

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James Liskow beat his speed camera ticket literally by a letter in the law. Liskow found what he argued was essentially a typo in the 5-year-old statute, a position that resulted in his $40 fine being thrown out Monday by ...

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Antitrust Price-fixing allegations BOTTOM LINE: Plaintiffs’ complaint alleged a sufficiently plausible case of price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act and, therefore, Defendants’ motion to dismiss was denied. CASE: Haley Paint Company v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours and Co., ...

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Stephanie A. Gallagher, a former federal prosecutor and then criminal defense attorney, was sworn in as a magistrate judge in Baltimore last week and has begun considering cases. Gallagher, who was nominated to the bench along with Timothy J. Sullivan ...

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The General Assembly spent much time and effort this session getting the state ready for the implementation of federal health care reform. “Health reform is only as good as states’ abilities to implement reform,” said Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown. ...

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Just when First Amendment principles seem to be working in public education, new fights over student religious speech threaten to reignite culture-war battles in schools across the country. It’s little known that many public schools made significant progress toward getting ...

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LOS ANGELES — Not everyone may have Charlie Sheen’s “Adonis DNA” but people may soon be able to wear it, chew on it, drink it and experience it in a videogame. Within two weeks of Sheen’s firing from television’s top-rated ...

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Offit Kurman has added two attorneys to its commercial litigation practice, working from the firm’s Baltimore/Washington office in Maple Lawn. William S. Heyman primarily represents banks, broker-dealers, insurance companies, and Fortune 100 firms in cases involving securities litigation, employment cases, ...

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The law has long recognized the need to prevent contact between unvaccinated and vaccinated children. But with anti-vaccine scares encouraging more adults to leave their children unprotected, the danger to the rest of us, young and old alike, has increased. ...

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