Judge keeps seal on portion of records in newsroom shooting case

January 7, 2020 Leave a comment

Jarrod Ramos is accused of killing five people at the Annapolis Capital Gazette newspaper. (AP photo)

ANNAPOLIS — The judge presiding over the criminal case against the man accused of killing five Maryland newspaper employees in 2018 ordered a number of documents to remain under seal as the parties await the start of the second phase ...

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Montgomery County MDEC rollout pushed to 2020

November 11, 2019 Leave a comment

Montgomery County lawyers will have to wait to be able to file their cases electronically. Maryland’s MDEC — Maryland Electronic Courts — system has been rolled out in the most of the state, most recently in Baltimore County this year. But additional requirements have pushed ...

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Baltimore Co. courts implement mandatory e-filing system

February 22, 2019 Leave a comment

Baltimore County is the latest jurisdiction to implement the state’s electronic filing system, known as Maryland Electronic Courts or MDEC, the largest expansion of the program to date, the Maryland Judiciary announced Friday. MDEC was implemented in the county on ...

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Case Search functionality returned

October 23, 2018 Leave a comment

The Maryland Judiciary temporarily suspended access to Case Search on Tuesday to fix technical issues causing poor response time on the site.

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Judiciary’s electronic filing expands to southern Maryland

June 16, 2017 Leave a comment

Maryland’s electronic case management system has expanded to southern Maryland

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Mandatory e-filing expands to four new counties in Md.

December 13, 2016 Leave a comment

Maryland’s electronic case filing system, known as Maryland Electronic Courts (MDEC), has expanded to Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore. Starting Monday, attorneys filing civil and criminal cases in district and circuit court in those counties, ...

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E-filing expands to Md.’s Eastern Shore

July 15, 2016 Leave a comment

Maryland’s electronic case filing system, known as Maryland Electronic Courts or MDEC, is expanding to Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties starting July 18, according to the Maryland Judiciary. E-filing will be mandatory for attorneys filing civil and ...

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For district court chief judge Morrissey, never a dull moment

September 27, 2015 Leave a comment

Having district court commissioners determine if defendants are indigent would compromise the commissioners’ ability to be neutral arbiters in cases, Chief Maryland District Court Judge John P. Morrissey told state senators Thursday. ‘We are not the prosecuting body,’ he said. ‘We are the neutral body.’(Maximilian Franz/The Daily Record)

The vacancy on Maryland’s top court appeared to be ideal for John P. Morrissey, chief judge of the Maryland District Court.

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MDEC filing-fee surcharge draws fire

February 12, 2015 Leave a comment

Katherine Kelly Howard, general counsel at Baltimore-based Regional Management Inc., voiced concern that the proposed surcharge increase in Senate Bill 64 would not be the last as e-filing expands statewide. (File photo)

Maryland’s top judge lobbied legislators Thursday to impose a 20 to 25 percent surcharge on filing fees for civil cases, raising the cost by as much as $30.

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Md. Judiciary’s e-filing pilot progresses through the hybrid phase

December 22, 2014 Leave a comment

Between the e-filing pilot’s start date on Oct. 14, and Nov. 14, when it became mandatory, the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court experienced a flood of paper filings that have had to be scanned in. ‘I knew the first four or five weeks would be tough,’ says Clerk of Court Robert P. Duckworth. He expects things to improve by mid-January as the conversion is completed. (Daily Record/File)

Courthouse clerks, judges and attorneys are steadily adapting to a two-month-old shift to a paperless system under a Maryland Judiciary project requiring lawyers to file civil claims and related documents electronically in Anne Arundel County courts.