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Week in review: 12/17/10
Casino finds way to offer freebies Maryland’s gaming growing pains could ease next month when the state gets its first taste of a staple of the casino industry — booze and […]
Court of Special Appeals upholds use of strip searches
Police need very little beyond their own suspicion to expand a valid search incident to arrest into a full strip search, Maryland‘s second-highest court has held. The Court of Special […]
Opinions: Maryland Court of Special Appeals
MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS Workers’ Compensation Coverage of nonresident employee BOTTOM LINE: A nonresident injured employee of a subcontractor was covered under the workers’ compensation policy of the general […]
Law digest: December 13, 2010
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Consumer Protection, New-home construction: Although the evidence did not support the conclusion that a developer held itself out as a registered home builder, its new-home construction […]
Mother loses TPR challenge to testimony from licensed clinical social worker
A licensed clinical social worker in Maryland can testify regarding the risk a child in foster care faces if returned to an allegedly unfit parent, the state’s top court has […]
Abuse victim settles with lender, title company
When the fate of Charles Lee Petr’s house remained up in the air last year, the young woman he impregnated when she was 14 was hopeful but realistic. Petr, once […]
Millersville woman can’t file bad-faith claim in Baltimore
Though her car crash occurred in Millersville, Christina Thompson of Anne Arundel County tried to sue her auto insurer in Baltimore City Circuit Court, saying a state law expressly permits […]
Court considers effect of Padilla ruling on alien defendant’s guilty plea
ANNAPOLIS — With his client facing potential deportation, a public defender urged Maryland‘s top court Thursday to throw out the guilty plea that brought Mark Denisyuk, a Latvian national, to […]
Opinions: Maryland Court of Special Appeals
MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS Criminal Procedure, Plea agreements: Where judge rejected binding plea agreement and then transferred defendant’s case to another judge for trial, second judge properly refused to reconsider […]
New trial granted to Amtrak worker’s widow
A widow can pursue a wrongful-death claim against Amtrak because the trial judge failed to tell jurors that assumption of risk is no defense in the case of a railroad […]
Opinions: Maryland Court of Special Appeals
Contract Law Employment agreement BOTTOM LINE: Physician’s action against defendant health care provider, seeking allegedly unpaid wages, alleging claims under Wage Payment and Collection Law, quantum meruit, and unjust enrichment, […]
Md. Court of Appeals: Child’s best interests are ‘transcendent’
Calling a child‘s best interests “transcendent,” Maryland‘s top court has ordered a Baltimore juvenile court to reconsider its decision allowing a mother with a history of neglect to retain parental […]
