January 10, 2013 Comments Off on Fights ahead on dogs, guns, death penalty
A renewed effort to abolish Maryland’s death penalty and strengthen gun control in the state after a mass slaying at a Connecticut grade school will be among the leading legal issues in the General Assembly this session.
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Read More »January 6, 2013 Comments Off on Housing co-op, state file motions to dismiss pit-bull suit
Attorneys for a Baltimore housing cooperative and the state attorney general filed further motions to dismiss a case that calls a Court of Appeals decision declaring pit bulls “inherently dangerous” unconstitutional.
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Read More »December 3, 2012 Comments Off on Hagerstown officer shoots pit bulls after 3 people bitten
HAGERSTOWN — Hagerstown police say an officer shot two pit bulls that bit three people after one tried to bite him. Police Sgt. Mark Renner says the officer was not injured. Renner tells The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown that the officer’s ...
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Read More »October 26, 2012 2 Comments
The General Assembly's pit bull task force met Thursday for the first time since this summer.
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Read More »October 26, 2012 Comments Off on Pit bull work session produces no results
A General Assembly task force formed to consider a controversial ruling by the Maryland Court of Appeals that pit bulls are “inherently dangerous” made no concrete decisions during a work session Thursday in Annapolis. Only six of the 10 task ...
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Read More »October 16, 2012 3 Comments
A lawsuit contesting a Court of Appeals ruling that pit bulls are “inherently dangerous” now includes the court itself, its chief judge, the governor and the attorney general as defendants.
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Read More »October 14, 2012 Comments Off on Pit bulls back on radar
The General Assembly task force studying ways to overrule a Maryland Court of Appeals ruling that called pit bulls “inherently dangerous” will meet this month to resolve differences that torpedoed legislation in an August special session.
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Read More »October 11, 2012 Comments Off on Pit bull task force will reconvene, lawmaker says
A task force that studied possible solutions to a liability problem created by a Maryland high court ruling that called pit bulls "inherently dangerous" will be reconvened, a state lawmaker said.
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Read More »October 8, 2012 Comments Off on Animal law, unleashed
The area of animal law goes beyond drafting life-estates for four-legged survivors or defending an owner whose dog has been judicially declared inherently dangerous. The cases deal with serious, wide-ranging areas of the law — including constitutional rights, property law and business law, animal lawyers said.
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Read More »September 28, 2012 Comments Off on Co-op says court should leave pit-bull ban in place
A Baltimore housing cooperative is defending its ban on pit bulls and does not want to lift it while a legal challenge to the policy wends its way through federal court.
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