The Maryland Supreme Court has reinstated the child sexual abuse conviction of a middle school substitute teacher who sent a student sexually charged texts outside of class.

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Maryland’s criminal law provision outlawing child sexual abuse by a “parent” applies only to a biological or adoptive parent, an appeals court ruled.

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Maryland's appeals courts must be open to alleged victims of public-accommodations bias when judges uphold a rights agency's dismissals of claims, groups say.

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At the heart of the case: Does a substitute teacher have supervisory authority over a child after school hours?

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Winning bidders at auctions for property on which taxes have gone unpaid can assign their sale certificates to someone else at any time before the deed on the purchased land is issued, a sharply divided Maryland high court ruled last ...

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