ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top judge will address a joint General Assembly session on Feb. 6 to offer an assessment of the state of the Judiciary, a spokeswoman for the jurist said Wednesday. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera ...

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Maryland’s Office of the State Prosecutor charged the chief of staff for a state delegate Thursday with violating election laws over the summer through a robocall attempting to link a fellow delegate to support for transgender rights. Tyler Walch, who was a ...

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Del. Joseph F. Vallario Jr., the influential chair of the House Judiciary Committee for the past quarter-century, will leave the General Assembly in January – but not voluntarily.

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The Maryland State Board of Elections must remove former state senator Nathaniel Oaks' name from primary election ballots, a judge ruled Thursday after previously denying the relief last week.

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Lawmakers will continue to push for raising the minimum age for marriage in Maryland after legislation failed for the third year in a row.

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With the state’s most populous city facing a homicide epidemic, the fate of legislation aimed at preventing and stiffening penalties for repeat gun offenders will come down to the final hours of the 2018 Maryland General Assembly on Monday.

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Both chambers of the Maryland General Assembly have passed legislation eliminating exceptions to state law allowing 15-year-olds to marry, but differences over whether the new minimum age should be 16 or 17 mean the cross-filed bills are likely headed for a conference ...

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Two bills pending in the General Assembly banning cyberbullying and revenge porn have broad support but have been opposed by the ACLU of Maryland over First Amendment concerns.

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The bill makes it a misdemeanor for health care practitioners, police officers, educators and human service workers to knowingly fail to report child abuse.

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The legislative debate over the minimum age for marriage in Maryland continues as cross-filed bills banning marriage for anyone younger than 18 were both amended in committee before moving forward in their respective chambers. The House Judiciary Committee adopted a ...

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