Recently added articles from The Daily Record (Baltimore):
Pro Bono: Towson lawyer feels it's his duty to make a difference
Sep 02, 2008; Danny Jacobs ... Jack Condliffe admits the first year of the Children's EducationProject in Baltimore County did not go as well as planned. Theprogram, designed to pair special-education students with volunteerlawyers trained to handle entitlement and discipline cases, trained30 lawyers but only had a ...
Beaten at impound lot, Hampden tow truck driver wins $275K
Sep 02, 2008; Brendan Kearney ... A Baltimore judge has awarded $275,000 to a Hampden tow truckdriver who, after complaining about the wait at the city's impoundlot, was badly beaten by the lot attendant. The attendant, Primus Jones, lost his temporary job and pledguilty to second-degree assault in connection with ...
Week in Review - Legal Edition
Sep 02, 2008 ... Top court rejects time limit on counsel request Even though two years and seven months passed betweeninterrogations of Michael Blaine Shatzer Sr. concerning the sexualabuse of his 3-year-old son, his confession during the secondsession was inadmissible because his request for an ...
Baltimore County's detention center project is all finished - all except the lawsuits
Sep 02, 2008; Danny Jacobs ... James P. O'Neill oversaw construction of jails in Anne Arundeland Prince George's counties, but said he did not have problems likehe had for the Baltimore County Detention Center expansion. "The other two architectural firms I dealt with listened," saidO'Neill, director of the ...
Gas-leak suit advances to Baltimore County Circuit Court
Sep 02, 2008; Danny Jacobs ... A class-action lawsuit in Baltimore County against ExxonMobilCorp., stemming from a massive January 2006 leak at a Jacksonvillegas station, will go forward as scheduled after a judge denied thecompany's motion for summary judgment. Judge Maurice Baldwin Jr. also ruled against ...
Baltimore City jury awards retired teacher $1.4M
Sep 02, 2008; Danny Jacobs ... A Baltimore City jury awarded a retired high school teacher $1.4million on Friday for a misdiagnosis of post-surgery complicationsthat resulted in him having four feet of his bowels removed. The jury deliberated one-and-a-half hours before awarding JamesH. Campbell Sr. damages ...
Baltimore County project, $77M; litigation-related fees, $685K
Sep 02, 2008; Danny Jacobs ... The Baltimore County Office of Budget and Finance estimated thecounty's detention center expansion would cost $77 million: $11.7million for engineering services and $65.3 million for constructioncosts. The construction costs included $6.9 million in contingencyfees. Louis J ....
Maryland Court of Appeals goes back to work with two new judges
Sep 02, 2008; Steve Lash ... The Court of Appeals will make history this term even before ithears the first case of the September 2008 term on Thursday morning. For the first time in its 232 years, Maryland's highest courtwill have three women among its seven members, with the additionthis summer of judges ...
The Daily Record News Briefs: September 2, 2008
Sep 02, 2008 ... 'No loitering,' but no cause for stop Police acted unreasonably in stopping and frisking a man who wasstanding near a "no loitering" sign in a high-crime area, the Courtof Special Appeals held. The court reversed Allen Thompson's handgun conviction, sayinghis motion to ...
Q&A with Nancy Grasmick, Maryland's state superintendent of schools
Sep 02, 2008; Andy Rosen ... Nancy S. Grasmick's 18th year as state superintendent of schoolshas been eventful, to say the least. Whether she's been making plans to hand over adult andcorrectional education to the Department of Labor, Licensing andRegulation, reacting to a spike in standardized testing ...
Baltimore County may ban portable ads
Sep 02, 2008; Liz Farmer ... Mobile advertisement trucks and scrolling ads are designed tocatch a passerby's attention -- but it's precisely that aspect thatmay get them banned from Baltimore County roads and parking lots. The County Council will take up a bill this month that proposes aban on all portable ...
Law Digest
Sep 02, 2008 ... 4th U.S. Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure: Speedy Trial Act: 103-day continuance orderedby district court did not consider requirements for granting an ends-of-justice continuance; thus, delay in appellants' case exceeded theSpeedy Trial Act's seventy-day limit and the ...
Legal Opinions - U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals: September 2, 2008
Sep 02, 2008 ... Criminal Procedure Speedy Trial Act BOTTOM LINE: 103-day continuance ordered by district court didnot consider requirements for granting an ends-of-justicecontinuance; thus, delay in appellants' case exceeded the SpeedyTrial Act's seventy-day limit and the indictment was ...
Legal Opinions - U.S. District Court, Maryland: September 2, 2008
Sep 02, 2008 ... Labor & Employment Employees ownership of claims under a CBA and WARN BOTTOM LINE: Employees of company filing bankruptcy legallytransferred their claims arising under existing collectivebargaining agreement and Worker Adjustment and RetrainingNotification Act. CASE: ...
Legal Opinions - Office of Administrative Hearings: September 2, 2008
Sep 02, 2008 ... Office of Administrative Hearings Information supplied by the Office of Administrative Hearings THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DECISION AND THE NAMES OF THE PARTIEDSHALL NOT BE REVEALED Child Abuse and Neglect Unsubstantiated Abuse by Child Care Worker Appellant ...
Commentary: Of Service: MCIE celebrates 20 years of helping kids with disabilities
Sep 02, 2008; Joe Surkiewicz ... Since 1975, federal law dictates that when making placementdecisions about children with disabilities, educators need to lookfirst at the school the child would attend if he or she didn't havea disability. And if that law were followed -- and children with disabilitiesweren't ...
Maryland Lawyers on the Move: September 2, 2008
Sep 02, 2008 ... Whiteford, Taylor & Preston announced that Peter D. Guattery wasrecently appointed chair of the Maryland State Bar Association'sLabor and Employment Section Council for a two-year term. Guattery,a member of the council since 1995, was made chair-elect in 2006. Aschair, he will lead the ...
Profiles in Leadership: From foster children to high finance
Sep 02, 2008; Caryn Tamber ... Mitchell Y. Mirviss' big projects lately: monitoring the state'sprogress on making court-ordered changes to foster care, working tosecure bail hearing representation for defendants -- andrepresenting Enron in bankruptcy litigation. Mirviss, a Venable LLP litigation partner and 2004 ...
Commentary: U.S. Senate should pass the shield law
Sep 02, 2008 ... When Congress returns from its August recess next week, membersof the U.S. Senate will consider the Free Flow of Information Act of2008 to provide journalists with a testimonial privilege in federalcourt. This "shield law" will allow reporters to protect theconfidentiality of their news ...
Baltimore-based partner at Hogan & Hartson LLP is Abu Dhabi-bound
Sep 02, 2008; Caryn Tamber ... James A. 'Jay' Gede Jr. is betting that Abu Dhabi is the nextDubai. The Baltimore-based partner at Hogan & Hartson LLP is movingWednesday to his firm's new office in Abu Dhabi, capital of theUnited Arab Emirates. Though the pace of development in Abu Dhabi doesn't yet ...