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Legislators in Annapolis have apparently rejected the idea of conferring immunity on court-appointed attorneys for physically and sexually abused children who carelessly, negligently or incompetently represent their child clients. That is great news for abused children. As the most vulnerable clients in the system, children need and deserve accountable attorneys who are held to the highest standards of professional conduct. Unfortunately, the battle to protect Maryland's children is not yet over. Proponents of immunity - primarily lawyers who stand to benefit personally - have advanced new bill language designed to hoodwink legislators into indirectly granting immunity through the courts. Worse, the immunity conferred by the new bill language would be even stronger than the immunity tha...
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Are you a judge stuck in a convicting-and-sentencing rut? Would you like to step out of retribution mode and into contributing mode?
...'s Center for Families, Children and the Courts, is now well into its fifth year. By using the sta...A major funder of the TCP is the Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts. "They recogni...
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In enacting the self-leave provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act, was Congress seeking to address gender discrimination in the workplace That was the question at the center of the debate Wednesday during oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court case Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland, which considers whether Congress abrogated states' sovereign immunity from FMLA claims involving self- care leave.
... Coleman, who worked in Maryland's Administrative Office of the Courts. In 2007 Coleman applied for ...
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Courts deal in winners and losers and are often ill-equipped to resolve issues involving warring siblings contesting the guardianship of their ailing or disabled parents. Proponents of guardianship mediation say it offers an alternative that allows the siblings to vent what may be decades-long grievances and decide among themselves how the issues should be handled.
...The Maryland Judiciary, through its Administrative Office of th...
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... Miles, Nylen & Gilmore, P.A., Calverton, Maryland, for Appellee. Naomi G. Beer, Miles & Stockbridge,...Id. at 1049-50. It recognized that some courts have interpreted this drafting history as demonstr...Administrative Office of the Courts, Annual Report of the Marylan...
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... adherence to the restricted role of courts. These restrictions have been encapsulated in a se... of constitutionality and review of administrative or other governmental action. As such, it is ofte... inquire how the executive, or executive officers, perform duties in which they have a discretion. Q... the record as "late of the district of Maryland," but were not designated as citizens of Maryland,...
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Judiciary launches domestic violence database A new statewide civil domestic violence database has been launched by the Maryland judiciary in an effort to help police and the courts better enforce protective orders.
...Justice Department's Office of Violence Against Women, contains all protective...The Administrative Office of the Courts and the Maryland Network Agai...
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The Supreme Court will use a lawsuit by a former Maryland court employee to determine if states can be sued for violating the self- care provision of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Daniel Coleman, once the executive director of procurement and contract administration at the Administrative Office of the Courts in Annapolis, claimed he was illegally fired in August 2007 for taking sick leave.
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....The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office now concedes that, in prosecuting respondent John ...Maryland, 373 U. S. 83 (1963). Thompsonwas convicted. B...'s murderconviction, state and federal courts reviewed and deniedhis challenges to the convictio... defender training program of the Administrative Office of theUnited States Courts. Id., at 416. 1...
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In the latest fallout from the fight in Washington over how to trim the federal budget, payments to private attorneys who represent indigent criminal defendants in federal court have been suspended. This is very troubling, and I'm very concerned it's going to have an impact on the criminal justice system and the quality of defense work in this district," Maryland Federal Public Defender James Wyda said Thursday, shortly after he passed the news from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to the more than 100 attorneys on the state's Criminal Justice Act panel.
