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Dec 22, 2010

Rothenberg will not face litigation over controversial payments

Karen H. Rothenberg will return $311,398 in controversial compensation she received while dean of the University of Maryland School of Law, under a settlement that closes the Maryland attorney general’s investigation of the payments. Between 2007 and 2009, Rothenberg received $410,000 in bonuses, including compensation for sabbaticals she never took and for teaching summer-classes, according [&h[...]

Dec 16, 2010

Editorial: Stop kicking the fiscal can

Gov. Martin O’Malley’s decision to offer buyouts to state employees is a small but important step in the right direction for state government. The governor, under orders from the Legislature to cut 500 jobs from the state work force by the end of 2011, hopes the buyouts will play an important role in satisfying that […]

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Emergency personnel work at the scene of a fatal crash along Interstate 695 on March 22, 2023, near Woodlawn. Multiple people were killed when a passenger vehicle pulled into a work zone along the Baltimore beltway and struck construction workers there, Maryland State Police said. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Maryland Court of Appeals

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Eric Simmons, left, and Demetrius Smith, who were found innocent after spending years in prison for crimes they did not commit in Maryland, testify before state lawmakers on Feb. 26, 2020, in Annapolis. On Sept. 20, 2023, a Maryland board approved more than $340,000 for a settlement to compensate Smith, who was wrongly convicted of murder and assault in two separate cases and spent more than five years in prison. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)

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Natasha Dartigue

Maryland Public Defender: New study highlights need to reduce workloads

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission headquarters and Washington Field Office. (Wikimedia Commons / AgnosticPreachersKid / “Woodward_and_Lothrop_Service_Warehouse” / CC BY-SA 3.0

EEOC files suit against Md. private school alleging disability discrimination

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