Doug Gansler

• Our Say: For Attorney General: Doug Gansler

After next month's election, Attorney General Joe Curran will be retiring from public office after 20 years as the state's top attorney. He will leave big shoes to fill and two candidates are eager to lace up: Doug Gansler, Montgomery County's state's attorney, and Scott Rolle, Frederick County's state's attorney. Mr. Gansler is clearly the best candidate and gets our endorsement.

• Maryland Gazette
• October 25, 2006

• You Can't Separate God and Government

Thank God (literally) that, at least for now, the attempt to make it "legal" for homosexuals to "marry," for a man to "marry" a man, a woman to "marry" a woman, has failed. This failure has happened despite the fact that Gov. Martin O'Malley and Attorney General Doug Gansler were privately confident that "legalizing" homosexual "marriage" would be a slam dunk.

• Maryland Gazette
• March 28, 2011

• The Daily Record News Briefs: November 23, 2011

Md. to get $1.6M from Merck settlementThe Maryland Medicaid program will receive approximately $1.6 million from the nearly $950 million settlement by drug maker Merck & Co. with the federal government and 43 states of civil and criminal allegations that Merck marketed its anti-inflammatory medication Vioxx for uses not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler said Wednesday. The company will pay a $321.6 million criminal fine and $628.3 million to resolve civil claims that it sold Vioxx for unapproved uses and made false statements about its cardiovascular safety. Also, a Merck unit will plead guilty to one count of misbranding Vioxx, according to prosecutors. Kamenetz to chair Metropolitan CouncilBaltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenet...

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• November 30, 2011

• States Target Smartphone Dwi Apps

DOVER, Del. (AP) -- The attorneys general for Delaware and Maryland have joined the call for companies to stop providing smartphone applications that let users know where drunken driving checkpoints are located. Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden and Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler said yesterday they have sent letters to Google Inc. and Apple Inc., asking them to ban applications that can be downloaded onto the iPhone and Android phones. The request is similar to one made by four U.S. senators earlier this month. That letter prompted Research In Motion, maker of Blackberry phones, to pull a similar application from its store.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• March 30, 2011

• Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler Schedules Chesapeake Bay Meeting

Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler is planning to visit Chestertown on Wednesday for private talks with local officials about pollution in the Che...

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• April 15, 2008

• Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Department of Justice's 2010 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month Program

WASHINGTON, June 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following are the : Good morning. Thank you, Chris [Hook], for your kind words and for all the work that you, Marc [Salans], the Board of DOJ Pride and our EEO staff team have done in organizing today's ceremony. It's a pleasure to join Tom [Perez] in welcoming so many members of the Justice Department family, and so many distinguished guests, here today as we commemorate LGBT Pride Month. I'm glad that Senator [Amy] Klobuchar and Director [John] Clark are with us. And I want to congratulate Chris [Hook] and this year's other award recipients, Councilmember [David] Catania and Att...

• U.S. Newswire
• June 21, 2010

• Q&a with Douglas F. Gansler, Maryland Atty. General

Doug Gansler has chickens on his mind. When we invited the attorney general to sit down for an informal but on-the-record Q&A with The Daily Record reporters and editors in early April, we figured the conversation would naturally turn toward the General Assembly session that had just concluded or the wins his office had posted in the year or so since he took office.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• June 25, 2008

• Commentary: Time to Stop Electing Judges

Attorney General Doug Gansler has it right: It's time to end the practice of circuit court judges campaigning for office in Maryland. It's a pretty unseemly thing for judges to do," Gansler told The Daily Record's Danny Jacobs in an interview.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• January 22, 2010

• Gansler Comes to Glen Burnie to Defend Opinion ; Questions Dwyer's Grasp of State Constitution On Marriage Laws, Impeachment

State's Attorney General Doug Gansler was blunt Thursday night, and he was hitting his biggest critic close to home. During an appearance in Glen Burnie, Gansler rejected Del. Don Dwyer's calls to impeach him over a legal opinion recognizing same- sex marriages in other states. He said the lawmaker doesn't understand the state constitution.

• Maryland Gazette
• April 13, 2010

• Commentary: Thinking of Same-Sex Marrige Litigation? Proceed with Caution, Lgbt Groups Say

I just got a press release notifying me of a new Frequently Asked Questions document put out by a host of gay-rights groups. It's meant to guide Maryland same-sex couples on their legal rights in the wake of Doug Gansler's opinion favoring recognition of out-of- state gay marriages. One thing that caught my eye is the FAQ's approach to whether couples who feel their marriage-recognition rights have been denied should litigate. The answer: a big, italicized, "no." Well, or at least a "not yet," or a "for Pete's sake, not without consulting us first." From the FAQ:

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• March 16, 2010