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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ANNAPOLIS – A former elected judge and staunch long-time backer of contested circuit court elections spoke Wednesday in support of legislation that would retain the right of Maryland voters to elect the trial judges but only in limited circumstances. Attorney ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Legislation aimed at striking a compromise between proponents and opponents of contested circuit court elections has failed to gain the support of the elections’ most vocal, highest-ranking critic. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, Maryland’s top ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Opponents and proponents of contested circuit court elections in Maryland battled Wednesday over proposed constitutional amendments to end the practice, with the state’s top judge saying the elections politicize the one governmental branch that should never be politicized ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Judiciary seeks $641.6 million in fiscal year 2021 – a 6% increase from the $605.5 million appropriated for the judicial branch this fiscal year, which ends June 30. The request includes $566.5 million from the state’s ...

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A Prince George’s County state senator will try again to bring “justice” to Maryland. Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters said last week that he would reintroduce in January a proposed state constitutional amendment to change the name of Maryland’s top judicial ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top judge issued an order, of sorts, to the judges, lawyers and legislators who attended a ceremony Thursday afternoon celebrating the renaming of the state’s law library in memory of civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, a Baltimore ...

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Maryland judicial and legislative leaders will celebrate on Oct. 17 the recent renaming of the state law library in memory of civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice and a Maryland native. Mary Ellen Barbera, ...

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Baltimore City Circuit Judge Audrey J.S. Carrion will become chief administrator of the trial court on Jan. 12, 2020, the Maryland judiciary announced Wednesday. Carrion will succeed Judge W. Michel Pierson, who has served as the circuit’s administrative judge since ...

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