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Julia Melville Freit, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., argued (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant....
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Tim Sheridan occasionally will use a sports metaphor to make a point. Sheridan, the new court administrator for Baltimore County Circuit Court, said his first order of business is to learn the names and faces of the approximately 100 employees he now oversees, become familiar with the nearly dozen agencies run by the court and get a general sense of how the Towson courthouse operates.
In other words, he said, "I need to memorize the playbook.
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The girl, 17, stands in Baltimore County Circuit Court to address the judge. To her right is the father of her child, the man whose sexual abuse of her began when she was 13. He has just pleaded guilty to second-degree rape.
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak and to honestly tell the truth and let everything be out in the open," she begins. "For the past few years of my life, I have kept this all inside and was basically told that I couldn't do anything because I wasn't allowed. I feel in all this that it was wrong, that if something like this would happen to my child, I would not want it to happen.
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Another candidate has entered the race for Baltimore County Circuit Court, and, if theories about the importance of ballot position are correct, he could have an advantage.
William R. Buie III, 35, is a Baltimore-based criminal defense and personal injury lawyer. He filed his statement of candidacy earlier this month.
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ARGUED: Henry Mark Stichel, Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, MD, for appellant. David Phelps Kennedy, Office of the Atty. Gen., Baltimore, MD, for appellee...
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A board-certified doctor of emergency medicine should pay $1.44 million to the family of a Rodgers Forge man who died a day after spending six hours waiting to be admitted to the hospital, a Baltimore County jury said.
The widow and daughters of Thomas D. Murphy, 59, argued that his death from septic shock could have been prevented if he had received a broad-spectrum antibiotic and "liters and liters" of fluid when he first went to the emergency room on June 10, 2007.
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Stanley K. Joynes, III (argued), Rilee, Cantor, Arkema & Edmonds, Richmond, Va., for petitioner-appellant.
Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argu...
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Former Maryland Court of Appeals Judge Joseph F. Murphy Jr. has joined Baltimore-based Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White, where he will head the alternative dispute resolution practice. His daughter, Erin Murphy, also works for the firm. Before his 1984 appointment to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Murphy was a Legal Aid staff attorney, an assistant state's attorney for Baltimore City, the deputy state's attorney for Baltimore City, and a partner in the Towson law firm of White & Murphy. He was appointed to the Court of Special Appeals in 1993 and became its chief judge three years later. In 2007 he was appointed to the Court of Appeals. Murphy, the author of the Maryland Evidence Handbook, teaches at the University of Baltimore Law School and the University of Maryland Fran...
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A judge formally ruled Thursday in favor of a Glen Arm dairy farmer who wants to open a creamery and store on land he sold into the state's agricultural preservation program more than a decade ago.
Judge John F. Fader II granted Bellevale Farm Inc.'s motion for summary judgment in Baltimore County Circuit Court, finding the creamery's opponents can't go to court to enforce the agricultural preservation easement. Fader indicated he would rule that way during a hearing last month.
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Lawyers for Jacksonville residents and ExxonMobil Corp. are back in Baltimore County Circuit Court on Thursday and Friday for pretrial hearings on the experts the plaintiffs are seeking to use in the upcoming gas station leak trial.
(The most recent start date for the trial was Monday, but that has been postponed until the end of November.)