A group of homeowners filed a complaint last week alleging a debt collector is violating a recent Maryland law by bringing foreclosure actions on debts that are more than three years old. The filing was made as a counter claim ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan will mull over the names of two district court judges, a magistrate judge and three attorneys as he weighs whom to appoint to Judge Michael D. Mason’s soon-to-be-vacant seat on the Montgomery County Circuit Court.

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Andrew Racca was not in the courtroom Thursday when a jury handed down a $19.5 million verdict against him for the wrongful death of Carolyn Mattingly.

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Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday filled three vacancies on the Montgomery County Circuit Court and one on the district court in Carroll County.

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A Montgomery County jury Wednesday awarded $545,000 to a 7-year-old girl who was bitten by a pit bull owned by her father’s landlord in 2012. The girl, who has scarring on her leg, required five surgeries and has post-traumatic stress, ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan Wednesday announced two judicial appointments to Montgomery County Circuit Court. Magistrate James A. Bonifant, a practitioner with 33 years of experience and a specialty in family law matters, and Kevin G. Hessler, a partner with Dragga, Hannon, ...

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ROCKVILLE – Montgomery County did everything it should have in hiring a trusted engineer and general contractor to design and build the Silver Spring transit center, but negligence and misrepresentations delayed the opening for years and led to millions of ...

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A Montgomery County jury has awarded $1 million in damages to a Potomac man who lost vision in one eye after surgery to repair a detached retina. Gustavo Crosetto and his wife were each awarded $500,000 in non-economic damages from ...

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Alone in his prison cell, Darren Witmer pulled out a piece of paper and tried a new way to steal someone’s money. “May this letter reach your hands with a welcoming comfort,” he wrote last year to a 75-year-old woman ...

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A Montgomery County Circuit Court jury has found an Olney anesthesiologist not liable in the death of a 70-year-old man following a diagnostic procedure. Marcos Torres was admitted to MedStar Montgomery Medical Center in September 2011 with acute pancreatitis and ...

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