ANNAPOLIS — A task force of lawmakers reviewing a court ruling that singles out pit bulls as “inherently dangerous” heard from animal rights advocates on Tuesday who oppose the decision and from the parents of a severely injured boy who ...

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OCEAN CITY — With a landmark ruling that imposed strict liability on owners of pit bulls and their landlords, talk of the fallout dominated the Animal Rights Law Section’s educational session at the Maryland State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on ...

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For anyone who routinely argues motions or handles matters before any court, it is probably only a matter of time before you experience a time (or several) when a judge rules against you even though you are quite certain that ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court has approved the release of 20,000 pages of so-called perversion files compiled by the Boy Scouts of America on suspected child molesters within the organization for more than 20 years, giving the public ...

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Media coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s pending decision about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has tended to focus on legal issues, such as the individual mandate, or the political implications for President Barack Obama and other national ...

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A federal judge’s approval of a monitoring agreement between the owners of the Sparrows Point steel plant and environmental regulators is being appealed by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the environmental group announced Wednesday. In March, U.S. District Judge J. Frederick ...

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Taking a giant step toward an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Maryland’s attorney general on Tuesday urged the state’s top court to reconsider or stay its week-old decision that struck down the key feature of the 2008 Maryland DNA ...

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FORT MEADE — A military judge refused on Thursday to dismiss the most serious charge against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history. Col. Denise Lind rejected a defense motion to throw out ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley said Wednesday he believes there are strong grounds to appeal a ruling by Maryland’s highest court that struck down a part of a state law allowing police to collect DNA from people charged with a ...

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Maryland’s attorney general’s office has filed a notice on plans to appeal last month’s ruling that a portion of the state’s gun permit law is unconstitutional. The notice was filed Monday in federal court, days after U.S. District Judge Benson ...

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