A $10 million federal lawsuit filed against the state, the Baltimore City Detention Center and more than a dozen members of the center’s medical and custodial staff alleges the center’s employees ignored signs that a female detainee had suffered multiple ...

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The family of a man who died of a heart attack while in a federal prison in Cumberland is suing the government for allegedly failing to provide accommodations based on the man’s medical history. Stephen P. Gardner previously had two ...

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The family of a Baltimore man killed in a 2012 bar shooting is suing the owners for negligence and wrongful death, alleging the bar failed to protect him despite knowing patrons routinely carried deadly weapons on the premises. Clarence L. ...

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The use of excessive force has become an accepted and commonplace practice among members of Prince George’s County’s police force and is frequently aimed at the primarily Hispanic community in Langley Park, according to an amended complaint filed in a ...

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It has been 4 1/2 years since Officer William H. Torbit Jr. was killed by friendly fire during a fight outside a Baltimore nightclub. But to his family, “it was like yesterday,” according to one of their lawyers. “They have ...

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The wife of a man who died last year at a Prince George’s County detention center after he was arrested for not paying his bus fare has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and several county correctional officers. ...

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The family of a Baltimore man who died in police custody in February has filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the officers involved in the case. Trayvon Scott suffered an asthma attack while sitting handcuffed in the 4700 ...

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The mother of an inmate killed by his cellmate in 2012 at the Jessup Correctional Institution has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the state. Jimmie Ruth Craven alleges corrections officers should have known Jeffrey E. Cordell "was a danger to other inmates" when they housed her son with him, according to the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Baltimore City Circuit Court. She is seeking $2 million in punitive damages and more than $75,000 in compensatory damages.

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The city's spending panel is scheduled to approve Wednesday a $175,000 settlement with the family of a man shot and killed by police in July 2012. The family of Michael Omar Wudtee filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit in October 2013, according to court records. The case was scheduled for trial in February but was settled a month earlier, according to online court records.

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The family of a Suitland man shot and killed outside his home has filed a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit against Prince George's County. Michael R. Minor, 38, died in October after sheriff's deputies responded to his house for a report of a domestic dispute, according to the lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt.

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