Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday named Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Laura S. Ripken to the state’s second-highest court. Ripken’s nomination to the Court of Special Appeals is subject to Senate confirmation when the General Assembly reconvenes next week. ...

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Attention all Maryland trial judges and lawyers over age 30 who have lived in the state for the past five years, reside in Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles or St. Mary’s counties, and yearn to be an appellate jurist. You have ...

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Four judges and 13 attorneys are vying for a seat on Maryland’s second-highest court that became vacant Nov. 5 when Judge Alexander Wright Jr. reached the state’s mandatory judicial retirement age of 70. Two of the judges and three of ...

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Attention all Maryland trial judges and lawyers over age 30 who have lived in the state for the past five years and yearn to be an appellate jurist: The judiciary will soon advertise for an at-large vacancy on Maryland’s second-highest ...

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ANNAPOLIS – “Justice” might finally come to Maryland. A proposed state constitutional amendment now before the General Assembly would change the name of Maryland’s top judicial tribunal from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court of Maryland and the ...

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Baltimore County did not violate the constitutional rights of hookah-lounge owners by requiring them to close their establishments by midnight each night, Maryland’s second-highest court ruled Wednesday. In its reported 3-0 decision, the Court of Special Appeals called the ordinance ...

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Nine judges and 14 attorneys are vying for a seat on Maryland’s second-highest court that will become vacant Sept. 1.

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A Maryland court has upheld the convictions of one of five men charged in the videotaped sexual assault of a teenage girl in an Ocean City hotel room.

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Gov. Larry Hogan has appointed Judge Patrick L. Woodward to be chief judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals effective May 6. Woodward will succeed Peter B. Krauser, the intermediate appellate court’s current chief, who reaches the state’s mandatory ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland court has ruled a new trial can proceed against a man charged with killing a North Carolina teenager. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state’s intermediate appellate court, issued the ruling Wednesday. The case involves ...

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