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Lawsuit: Md. park police exchanged racist, extremist text messages
A Black police officer with the Maryland-National Capital Park Police was subjected to racist and abusive messages sent in a group text with fellow officers, some of whom made references to a “race war” and far-right extremist groups, a new lawsuit claims. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, alleges that a […]
Group asks US Supreme Court to stop removal of Peace Cross
A group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that declared unconstitutional a Maryland veteran's monument fashioned as a 40-foot-tall cross.
High-profile high-court advocate to press ‘Bladensburg Cross’ appeal
Former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal K. Katyal will press the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission’s Supreme Court appeal in the 'Bladensburg Cross' case.
Top court revives battle over Sandy Spring’s Farm Road
A Montgomery County trial judge prematurely dismissed the residents’ lawsuit, first filed in 2008, in which they seek to enforce the easement over “Farm Road” against the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
Suit and sale close, followed by synagogue
Call it a win-win-win. A Hyattsville synagogue finally has sold its property to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission after the commission made a deal with the developer that previously owned the land.
Resident loses suit for Farm Road easement
A Montgomery County resident is not entitled to an easement for an unrecognized road that runs by his house, the Court of Special Appeals has held. Gregg D. Bacon had filed the lawsuit in June 2006 against a number of agencies and individuals including the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and Macris, Hendricks & […]
Orobona joins Miller, Miller & Canby
Damon Orobona has joined Miller, Miller & Canby, of Montgomery County, as an associate in its land development practice group. Orobona previously worked as a senior legislative analyst for the Montgomery County Planning Department of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Orobona received his J.D. from St. Thomas University School of Law, his Urban […]
Scope of Currie’s contract, actions at issue
Federal prosecutors opened their case against state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie on Tuesday by casting him as a greedy lawmaker who strong-armed state agency officials to benefit Shoppers Food Warehouse Corp., which paid him a “consulting” fee of nearly $250,000 over the course of five years. But Currie’s defense counsel said the senator’s work on […]
Washington Nationals dedicate “Miracle Field”
The Washington Nationals, in association with the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation, The Annette M. and Theodore N. Lerner Family Foundation, the Miracle League of Montgomery County, the Kiwanis Club of Bethesda the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and others, on Monday will hold a ribbon cutting to mark the grand opening of the Washington […]
Gardner puts construction expertise to use in law
Adrian Robert Gardner, general counsel of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, is making use of his experience working in private practice on construction and land-use issues. He was a general counsel for Dyna Corp. when that construction company helped build the Baltimore Ravens’ football stadium and the Redskins’ FedEx Field. Gardner also has […]
GC Profile: Adrian Robert Gardner of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Adrian R. Gardner has been the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission’s general counsel since April 2000, but before then he learned important lessons on other jobs — like how to build a stadium and why giving minority contractors an opportunity benefits all. Oh, and during his undergraduate days, Gardner saw how federal agents deal […]
