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31 Jul 2020, 12:49 pm
take (and pass) the examination prerequisites to practice law in Maryland, the information in this editorial [read post]
27 May 2020, 4:59 pm
On May 6, the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission charged Judge Carroll Kelly of the 11th Judicial Circuit with “len[ding] the prestige of your judicial office to advance the private interests of yourself and others” after the judge agreed to allow a television show known as “Protection Court” to film in the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court ... [read post]
15 May 2020, 5:17 am
We write to compliment and thank all the judges of the Maryland Court of Appeals for recognizing the challenges regularly confronted by Baltimore City firefighters and police officers. They did so on May 1, when the court unanimously held that when such first responders suffer a concussion in the line of duty then resulting cognitive ... [read post]
10 Feb 2020, 3:24 pm
We believe it’s impossible at this point to be a Maryland resident and not be fatigued by the never-ending self-dealing perpetuated by our government leaders, those sworn to serve the well-being of our citizenry. Baltimore city has faced the dethroning of two mayors within the past 10 years and the removal of a police commissioner ... [read post]
30 Jan 2020, 3:37 pm
Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera of the Court of Appeals, our highest court, has come out in favor of stripping the voters of their only real opportunity to hold state judges accountable for their performance. She proposes to end contested elections for the judges of circuit courts, our trial court of general jurisdiction. We dissent. ... [read post]
1 Oct 2019, 1:06 pm
This board has opined on several occasions on the need for a court in our state system dedicated to the [read post]
28 Jan 2019, 2:31 pm
District Court Judge Michael Studdard released Philip West on $100,000 bail. Mr. West was charged with fatally shooting a man in a Fells Point Bar last December 21, 2018. Mr. West surrendered on January 14 and was initially held without bail. But Judge Studdard released Mr. West and sent him home ordering that he wear ... [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 11:30 am
Our fractious political climate became more so last week in a way that threatens to erode respect for the judiciary and perhaps the law itself. Once again, President Trump fired a word salvo at a jurist whose decision he didn’t like. After U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar blocked an administration attempt to bar people ... [read post]
10 May 2023, 9:01 am
Law360 Editorial Boards Offer Insight to Reporters Law360 has numerous editorial boards, each devoted [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:30 pm
“The new men are not politicians, but foresters,” a newspaper editorialized. [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 8:12 am
York Times, where the right-leaning Ross Douthat toils away in solitary isolation, the Post’s editorial [read post]
10 Jun 2015, 7:13 am
“Finding Justice: A History of Women Lawyers in Maryland Since 1642,” traces that history from the mid-17th century seminal figure of Margaret Brent to today’s almost fully integrated bar. [read post]
10 Aug 2014, 12:00 pm
As we have noted in the past, applications to the nation’s law schools are on the wane. Data from the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education confirm the trend. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 2:23 pm
Baltimore police Commissioner Kevin Davis says he is fed up with the meager sentences handed down to defendants in Baltimore who are arrested with illegal handguns. He’s taken his case to the media and plans to go to Annapolis during the upcoming General Assembly session to lobby for tougher sentences. His message is that although ... [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 3:12 pm
In 2013, we noted that the Business and Technology Case Management System had celebrated its 10th anniversary. To create the B&T Court, then-Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert M. Bell adopted some of the recommendations of the General Assembly-created Maryland Business and Technology Court Task Force. The chief judge had been directed to consider the ... [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 2:45 pm
Requiring proof from actual witnesses can be a good thing. For example, under Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, two witnesses must swear from personal knowledge that someone accused of treason has committed acts sufficiently grievous to label him or her a traitor. But there is one instance when witness testimony should no ... [read post]
19 Aug 2021, 2:49 pm
In a lawsuit to have the last Confederate monument removed from public grounds in Maryland, Talbot County has filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that “mere offense through observation of a statue” does not create an appropriate injury to bring a case. The U.S. District Court case, Maryland Office of the Public Defender ... [read post]
2 Jul 2021, 4:27 am
Transparency in government. Politicians and officials regularly say they are favor of it, but there remain some surprising limits on such transparency. Take, for example, Maryland’s “broadcast ban” statute. The “ban” prohibits – subject to criminal penalty — recording or broadcasting a criminal trial or any “hearing, motion, or argument, that is held in trial ... [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 2:41 am
During the last week of May, Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed many bills, including multiple measures relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. But one COVID-related bill the governor did not veto, that consequently will become law, is the Maryland Essential Workers’ Protection Act. We commend Hogan and the Maryland legislature for enacting this law. We, like everyone, ... [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 3:21 pm
Lawyers in the Maryland bar — and probably throughout the country– have regularly and for a long time been calling for law schools to teach their students practical skills important to the practice of law. The University of Baltimore School of Law (UB Law), as compared with law schools around the country, was a pioneer ... [read post]
