BOSTON — A Massachusetts gun-maker has agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to the families of one man who was killed and another man who was wounded in a shooting involving a gun allegedly stolen from the company, a national gun-control ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Eric Ali never was criminally charged in the beating death of a 14-year-old boy in Crofton nearly two years ago. But Wednesday, he paid a price for any involvement he had in the 2009 attack on Christopher Jones ...

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Civil Procedure Joinder BOTTOM LINE: The trial court, in a prior wrongful death action brought by decedent’s widow and children from second marriage, could not approve a settlement without the inclusion of decedent’s children from first marriage as plaintiffs; therefore, ...

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A Prince George’s County jury has awarded $11.5 million to the family of a man killed by a county police officer. The widow and son of Manuel de Jesus Espina were awarded the verdict Wednesday in Prince George’s County Circuit ...

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A taxpayer could not deduct as a “casualty loss” a $250,000 payment made to settle a wrongful death lawsuit, the U.S. Tax Court has ruled. The ruling upheld a $65,000 deficiency assessment against taxpayer Robert K.K. Pang and his wife, ...

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The widow and child of a machinist killed while operating a boring machine in Baltimore have settled for $1.5 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit they filed against the manufacturer. David M. Desrosiers’ widow and daughter had sued Giddings & Lewis ...

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A jury has awarded more than $9.6 million to the families of four deceased workers who were exposed to asbestos in their work in Baltimore and died of lung cancer. The Baltimore City Circuit Court jury awarded the verdict against ...

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Criminal Procedure Reach-in searches BOTTOM LINE: Where, police partially exposed defendants’ buttocks during searches incident to their arrests, searches were reasonable because they were “reach-in” rather than strip searches. CASE: Allen v. State, Smith v. State, Nos. 1963, 1968, Sept. ...

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The family and estate of a man killed by a fellow patient last March at Baltimore Behavioral Health Systems Inc. have filed a $2 million lawsuit against the facility, claiming it allowed the assailant to return without adequate security after ...

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The family of a Marine shot dead by an off-duty Baltimore police officer outside a nightclub last June has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the officer and the police department, claiming the incident was preventable and seeking millions of dollars ...

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