A gun rights group is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that Maryland owes gun owners money for having required them to surrender their bump stocks and similar devices they can place on their firearms to make them fire ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined Maryland Reclamation Associates Inc.’s request that the justices review and reinstate a $45 million jury award in a litigation battle MRA has waged against Harford County for nearly 30 years over the company’s ...

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Maryland Reclamation Associates Inc.  is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and reinstate a $45 million jury award in a litigation battle MRA has waged against Harford County for nearly 30 years over the company’s right to use its ...

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A gun-rights group will urge the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that Maryland owes gun owners money for having required them to surrender their bump stocks and similar devices they can place on their firearms to make them fire faster, ...

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The state of Maryland owes gun owners financial compensation for having required them to surrender their bump stocks and similar devices they can place on their firearms to make them fire faster, a gun rights group stated in papers filed ...

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When they were finished, it looked as though the Greenwood Village, Colorado, police had blasted rockets through the house.

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A Maryland appeals court has overturned a $45 million jury award to a company that has battled Harford County for nearly 30 years over the right to use its property as a rubble landfill. The state’s intermediate court ruled that ...

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Montgomery County did not violate a developer’s constitutional rights by adopting a water system amendment to a master zoning plan, changes that devalued the planned development, a federal appeals court ruled last week. In its reported 3-0 decision, the 4th ...

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Maryland’s recently enacted ban on attachments that enable guns to fire more rapidly will remain in effect after a federal judge last week rejected arguments from gun-rights advocates that the law is unconstitutional. Citing a mass slaying at an outdoor ...

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Maryland’s ban on bump stocks went into effect Monday as the legal battle over the gun law’s constitutionality has shown no sign of slowing down in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

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