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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Read More »March 19, 2018 Comments Off on When the judge is right but the law is wrong
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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Read More »June 17, 2014 Comments Off on Personal-info certificates on hold until Sept. 1
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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Read More »June 16, 2014 Comments Off on Rule on personal info certificate may wait
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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Read More »January 13, 2014 Comments Off on Md. challenges piggyback tax ruling
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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Read More »November 21, 2013 Comments Off on Groups back challenge to piggyback-tax ruling
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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Read More »November 6, 2013 Comments Off on Top court won’t stay lawyers-at-bail ruling
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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Read More »October 8, 2013 Comments Off on Farm groups appeal Chesapeake Bay cleanup ruling
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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Read More »October 3, 2013 Comments Off on Top court urged to overturn State Center ruling
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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Read More »July 3, 2013 Comments Off on Judge blocks Boardwalk noise ordinance
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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Read More »June 30, 2013 Comments Off on Arbitration ruling divides litigation bar, spurs calls to Congress
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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