The Maryland Judiciary seeks $665.4 million in fiscal year 2022 – a 4.8% increase from the $634.6 million appropriated for the judicial branch this fiscal year, which ends June 30. The budget request includes $591.7 million from the state’s general ...
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Ruth A. Jakubowski will become administrative judge for the circuit courts of Baltimore and Harford counties beginning Dec. 19, Maryland’s top jurist said Friday. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera has also approved the appointment of Sherri D. ...
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Two circuit court judges were unseated in Howard and Charles counties by attorneys in Tuesday’s judicial elections.
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Maryland’s top court Thursday opens the public sessions of its 2020-2021 term, during which it will consider the constitutionality of Baltimore’s tax on billboard operators, whether a judge properly admitted into evidence the violent rap lyrics of an accused killer ...
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Maryland’s top judge called on the state’s judiciary and its 40,000 attorneys Tuesday night to ensure that racial minorities and the indigent are not shortchanged in the civil and criminal justice system. “All of us – members of the judicial ...
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Maryland’s trial courts will “adhere to the mandates of of due process and the rule of law” as they gradually return to full operations on Oct. 5 during these “unprecedented and challenging times” of COVID-19, the state’s top judge said ...
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Maryland’s trial courts will return to “full operations” including jury trials on Oct. 5 following a summer of gradual resumptions of court proceedings, including evictions, foreclosures and bench trials, the state’s top judge stated Friday evening. “The details in the ...
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Maryland’s top court on Friday rejected requests from the state public defender’s office and civil rights groups to release low-level juvenile and adult inmates and detainees amid the coronavirus pandemic. The public defender’s office said in its petition to the ...
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Maryland’s top judge took to YouTube on Monday to update the state’s lawyers on the Judiciary’s efforts to keep the court system running as efficiently as possible amid emergency restrictions to combat the spread of the COVID-19 disease. “We are ...
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Maryland courts will close to the public for three weeks starting Monday to reduce the number of people in courthouses during the coronavirus pandemic, Court of Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera announced Friday evening. “All courts in the Maryland ...
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