The Maryland Judiciary seeks $759 million in fiscal year 2024 – a 6.1% increase from this fiscal year.

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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court Friday held its first public session with a name other than the Court of Appeals, as it had been called since 1776. “Welcome to the Supreme Court of Maryland,” Chief Justice Matthew J. Fader said ...

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The names of Maryland’s two appellate courts and the titles of the state’s top judges changed Wednesday with a gubernatorial proclamation.

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Former Maryland Court of Appeals Judge Lawrence F. Rodowsky, who served as an active and recalled judge on Maryland’s appellate courts, died last weekend.

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Maryland’s appellate judges and the attorneys who appear before them have formed a group to enhance civility on the bench and bar, as well as mentor young lawyers.

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The official portrait of retired Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera is the first of 24 such drawings of the state’s top jurists going back to 1778 to feature a woman.

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Maryland’s top court opened its 2022-2023 session this month, a term in which it will consider whether alleged racially charged comments so permeated a recently reported appeals court opinion that a convicted killer, who is Black, deserves a new hearing ...

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Maryland's Court of Appeals has indefinitely suspended a Virginia-based lawyer who sent an "antisemitic and highly offensive" letter to a client.

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Recently retired Court of Appeals Chief Judge Joseph M. Getty, who often regales visitors to Maryland’s high court with stories of its history, said he plans to put his words to paper.

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One and possibly both of Maryland’s appellate courts will come under new leadership in 2022.

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