OCEAN CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court has not hesitated in recent years to go above and beyond the cases before it to make bold and sweeping changes to the law, three veteran court watchers said Thursday. “This court’s habits ...

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A city panel endorsed a new design for the $150 million Superblock development that maintains two exterior walls of the former Read’s Drugs store, site of a historic 1955 lunch counter sit-in and civil rights protest by students from Morgan ...

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A panel of scientists and environmentalists says the ambitious plan to restore the Chesapeake Bay faces a number of challenges to successfully achieve the massive reclamation project. They include improved tracking of efforts to reduce pollution into the bay, climate ...

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Baltimore’s Board of Estimates has approved Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s proposed $2.7 billion budget. The panel’s approval Wednesday clears the way for the city council to consider the proposed fiscal year 2012 spending plan, which closes a projected shortfall with cuts, ...

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A Maryland appeals court has refused to disturb — on state contract law grounds — an Orthodox Jewish arbitration panel’s denial of a financial award to a divorced woman who had signed a prenuptial agreement to have the dispute resolved ...

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WASHINGTON — A House committee plans to write legislation next week ending the Obama administration’s flagship effort for helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure and abolishing three other housing assistance programs. At its meeting next Thursday, the highest-profile target of the ...

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A Maryland law that allowed Prince George’s County to ban liquor sales at strip clubs based on the performers’ conduct and attire is unconstitutional, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Thursday. The 2-1 decision affirms a federal judge’s ...

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Preliminary drawings for a 1,400-space parking garage in the New East Baltimore development north of Johns Hopkins Hospital received a lukewarm reception after they were unveiled Wednesday before a city design panel. The garage, which a development official said is ...

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HAGERSTOWN — Federal investigators overstated the strength of the scientific evidence against a late Army researcher blamed for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001, a panel of scientists said Tuesday after an 18-month review. However, the panel ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland should raise $800 million more in annual transportation funding to shore up the state’s depleted Transportation Trust Fund, a commission recommended Monday. The 28-member Blue Ribbon Commission on Maryland Transportation Funding also recommended amending the state’s constitution ...

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