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MD police sergeant not immune from racial bias suit, 4th Circuit rules
A former Maryland State Police sergeant is not immune from claims of racial bias, the Fourth Circuit ruled.
4th Circuit upholds $730K award to Black Secret Service agent illegally detained in Md.
A federal appeals court upheld a jury’s $730,000 award to a Black Secret Service agent unconstitutionally detained by two white U.S. Park Police officers.
Md. high court weighs convicted killer’s claim of racial bias in appellate opinion
The appellate ruling had likened the defendant and his mother to monsters from the epic poem 'Beowulf.'
Md. high court opens term with race-related cases on docket
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 […]
Defense lawyer proves what great-grandfather couldn’t for Black teen in 1930s
Today is Monday, the 47th anniversary of the release of the movie “Jaws.” Here are some other news items. — Defense attorney’s great-grandson wins posthumous exoneration of Black teenager executed […]
Md. high court will review killer’s claim of racial bias in Belton case
Maryland’s top court will consider if alleged racially charged comments so permeated an appeals court opinion that a convicted killer deserves a new hearing.
Convicted killer seeks high court review, claims racial bias in appellate opinion
Racially charged comments so permeated a recently reported Maryland appeals court opinion that a convicted killer deserves a new hearing before an impartial appellate body, the Black convict’s attorney argued.
Richard Rombro, former Baltimore judge, dies at 91
Retired Baltimore City Circuit Judge Richard T. Rombro, whose landmark 1998 ruling that Maryland’s anti-sodomy law could not be applied to consensual acts presaged the U.S. Supreme Court’s validation 17 […]
Minority, woman-owned businesses allege federal loan bias
The federal government intentionally discriminated against minority- and woman-owned businesses in its recent distribution of nearly $350 billion in loans to save small companies desperate to survive amid the United […]
