Unfortunately, what happens is the decision is the child’s best interest is actually not accomplished through no fault of the court.

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Maryland’s top court Tuesday voted to defer until Sept. 1 implementation of a rule that would require attorneys to certify they have not included any litigant’s Social Security, taxpayer identification, bank account or medical account number in each document they file with the court.

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Maryland’s top court on Tuesday will consider deferring implementation of a rule that, beginning July 1, would require attorneys to certify they have not included any litigant’s Social Security, taxpayer identification, bank account or medical account number in each document they file with the court.

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The U.S. Supreme Court signaled interest Monday in a dispute over the application of Maryland’s “piggyback tax” on residents who earn income outside the state.

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Saying localities need the money, a Bethesda-based municipal lawyers’ group is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to save a law that bars Maryland residents from deducting, from city or county taxes, the tax they pay to other states when they earn money there.

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Maryland’s top court said Wednesday it will not stay its landmark decision that criminal defendants have a constitutional right to counsel at initial bail hearings — but even so, it may have prolonged the seven-year legal fight between the accused and the state.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Farm groups said Tuesday that they were appealing a judge’s decision to uphold federal pollution limits that are designed to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, by more tightly regulating wastewater treatment, ...

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An attorney for Maryland urged the state’s top court Thursday to overturn a city judge’s ruling that essentially derailed the proposed $1.5 billion development of State Center in Baltimore.

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In a victory for Ocean City’s boardwalk musicians, a federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked enforcement of the town’s year-old noise ordinance, calling it a violation of the constitutional right to free speech.

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The chasm between corporate-defense attorneys who extol the virtues of mandatory arbitration agreements and members of the plaintiffs’ bar who say the pacts strip consumers of their right to redress was widened by the U.S. Supreme Court last month.

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