Today is Monday, the 118th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Jacobson v. Massachusetts decision upholding the constitutionality of a state’s compulsory vaccination law. Here are some other news items. — The PGA Tour wins a round in antitrust litigation ...

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Local residents may challenge a commission’s zoning decision they allege was unlawfully reached based on the vote of a commissioner with a personal stake in the outcome, their attorney told a skeptical Maryland high court.

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Maryland’s top court will consider whether local residents can challenge in court a county commission’s zoning decision that they allege was unlawfully reached based on the vote of a commissioner who had a personal stake in the outcome. The Court ...

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Invoking the Holocaust and Sept. 11, attorneys for Black Talbot County residents defend their call for removal of a statue honoring local Confederate soldiers.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Cumberland zoo’s bid to recover a lion and two tigers removed from the facility for their safety under a judge’s order issued at the urging of an animal rights group. ...

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An animal rights group is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an embattled Cumberland zoo’s effort to reverse a federal judge’s order that removed a lion and two tigers from the facility for their safety after other animals had ...

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An embattled Cumberland zoo is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and vacate a judge’s order removing a lion and two tigers from the facility for their safety, saying the animal rights group that successfully sued for their removal ...

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A Maryland firearms dealer can pursue its constitutional challenge to the state’s law and regulations requiring would-be handgun purchasers to be licensed before they can buy the weapon, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. Atlantic Guns Inc. claims the Firearm ...

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