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13 Apr 2017, 8:23 am
The Maryland General Assembly missed a chance this year to make a significant impact in the area of family law by not passing proposed legislation to codify the standards by which courts address child custody and visitation. With bipartisan support from its sponsors, Del. Kathleen M. Dumais, D-Montgomery, and Del. Susan K. McComas, R-Harford, House ... [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 1:29 pm
On the second day of the current legislative session, a bipartisan contingent of the House of Delegates introduced House Bill 69 (the “Personal Property Tax Credit for New or Small Business Act”) for consideration. The proposed law would provide the mayor of Baltimore, county executives, commissioners and other governing bodies with the option – but ... [read post]
17 Nov 2015, 1:18 pm
Baltimore City police officers soon will be wearing body cameras, and stationary video cameras already record a substantial amount of activity on Baltimore’s streets. The Commission Regarding the Implementation & Use of Body Cameras by Law Enforcement Officers, established by the General Assembly last year, recently issued a report that contains detailed best practices for ... [read post]
4 Nov 2021, 2:33 pm
In its recent decision regarding Baltimore City’s State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s opposition to releasing the names of compromised Baltimore City police officers, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that Mosby must release the list of police officers whom she is not able to call to testify against defendants in criminal proceedings because the integrity ... [read post]
5 Oct 2021, 2:59 pm
Earlier this year, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a sweeping law that would ban almost all future noncompete agreements in the district starting next year. The new statute is one of the most radical and far-reaching laws of its type in the country, but it was implemented because of a genuine concern about ... [read post]
27 Sep 2021, 6:31 am
More than a handful of Democrats have called for 83-year-old Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire while there is still time to assure that a Democrat will be president when the time comes to appoint his successor, or before there is a change in the composition of the Senate. Breyer says he understands the ... [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 3:39 pm
Forty-seven states require their lawyers to take ethics courses to maintain their licenses and we believe that Maryland should do the same. [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 6:25 am
“Teenager charged in fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Baltimore”; “2 men arrested in shootout that injured 2 men, 10 year old girl.” The local headlines are simply gruesome, and we must find a way to slow down gun violence before it destroys Baltimore. We think one answer might be the creation of a ... [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 4:15 pm
The 2021 session of the Maryland General Assembly will be filled with competing priorities as the state grapples with the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. One problem the legislature must tackle is the imminent funding cliff for civil legal aid in the state. Maryland Legal Services Corporation, the state’s largest funder of civil legal ... [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 12:59 pm
Most people going about their daily lives in downtown Baltimore have no idea that the entertainment venue now known as Market Place or Power Plant Live Plaza was once a small corner of hell. There, in the 18th and 19th centuries, enslaved Black people, including small children, were sold regularly in market stalls, alongside livestock, ... [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 12:47 pm
Gov. Larry Hogan recently responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to send federal law enforcement agents to Baltimore to deal with unrest. Hogan said only peaceful protests are happening in Baltimore and that he, “doesn’t know what they would do if they came because we have no protests like you are seeing in Portland, Chicago, ... [read post]
20 May 2020, 3:57 pm
Judge Emmett Sullivan is not letting self-convicted Gen. Michael Flynn off the hook Flynn hung himself on, at least not yet. The Department of Justice seeks to erase Flynn’s prosecution, but Sullivan, the judge who took Flynn’s confession of guilt, has appointed John Gleeson, a retired federal judge and former prosecutor, to challenge the Department ... [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 1:36 pm
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of child custody issues are arising among parents who share custody of their minor children. The most looming is whether parents who are considered front-line workers pose a health risk to their children. This question raises even more questions: Should these parents be prohibited from seeing their children ... [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 2:46 pm
Judge James F. Schneider’s professional life was one of public service. He was an assistant state’s attorney for Baltimore City, general equity master for the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City and, for over 35 years, a United States bankruptcy judge. Judge Schneider died on April 6, after many years of ill health. In the coming ... [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 12:01 pm
Here we are again. The Maryland legislative auditor wrote on Oct. 31 that the University of Maryland Medical System “delayed and hindered our work by repeatedly failing to make employees available and failing to provide requested information on a timely basis.” This is not entirely surprising, because the audit required by the General Assembly forces UMMS to ... [read post]
24 Sep 2019, 2:08 pm
David Plymyer’s Sept. 19 op-ed in The Daily Record is unfair and misleading. Plymyer cites a single decision of the Court of Special Appeals, reversing a trial judge with over six years of experience on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, for the proposition that judges should be subject to judicial evaluation. Plymyer elevates this ... [read post]
5 Apr 2019, 2:58 pm
To paraphrase the Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, if you’re not a part of the solution you’re a part of the problem. There must be no neutrality regarding the problem that clings to Baltimore like a fog. By the problem, we mean a fairly constant stream of corrupt city officials, those who believe it’s OK to act outside ... [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 3:29 pm
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh fired Police Commissioner Kevin Davis last Friday morning, replacing him with Deputy Commissioner Darryl D. De Sousa, a veteran BPD officer. Davis simply could not get the job done and all the spin he could muster couldn’t fix that. Perhaps the problem of crime and violence in this city is so ... [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 2:02 pm
Gov. Larry Hogan, frustrated with the spiraling violence in Baltimore city, has called publicly for a meeting with the criminal justice enforcement community, including the city’s judges. While it is a truism that judges have a critical role in seeing that justice is lawfully meted out, they are, and should remain, at arm’s length from the executive authority ... [read post]
22 Jun 2021, 9:09 am
Environment (GNHRE), a member of the Teaching Business & Human Rights Forum, and a member of the editorial [read post]
