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An immigrant rights group is suing the Frederick County Sheriff's Office for documents related to its officers participating in a federal immigration enforcement program that has resulted in the arrests of more than 200 illegal immigrants this year. Casa de Maryland's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court, comes after three separate requests under the Maryland Public Information Act were denied earlier this year.
A Frederick technology company has been awarded nearly $500,000 from its former president, who started a rival company while still an employee and defamed his employer to drum up business. Caveo Network Solutions Inc. prevailed on its counterclaim filed in response to Anthony McCauley's $750,000 lawsuit alleging he was forced out after questioning the company's accounting practices and finances. Frederick County Circuit Court Judge John H. Tisdale granted a defense motion for judgment on McCauley's complaint Feb. 3, the final day of a four-day bench trial.
Criminal LawPost-Conviction ReliefGuilty PleaFactual Basis Even though a defendant stated that she was "pretty sure" that a substance she delivered was methamphetamine, the statement was not equivocal in context since she rejected an offer by the trial court to wait for a lab test on the substance and the record showed that the defendant had an extensive history with methamphetamine, so there was a factual basis for the defendant's guilty plea, and the court did not err in accepting the plea and in denying the motion for post-conviction relief.Judgment is affirmed. Evans v. State (MLW No. 62824/Case No. WD72937 - 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Witt, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Livingston County, Elliott, J. (Alexa I. Pearson, Columbia, for appellant) (Shaun ...
Heavy snowfall this past weekend pretty well clogged the wheels of justice statewide Monday, but many public legal offices and courts, if skeletally staffed, were open for business. A majority of the state's courthouses, from Wicomico County District Court to Frederick County Circuit Court, were closed Monday, with one notable exception: the Court of Appeals and Court of Special Appeals heard their regularly-scheduled dockets in Annapolis.
A Charleston man will spend up to 50 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting his niece over a span of six years, beginning when she was 9 years old. Frederick Thomas Butts, 42, of 41 Garrison Ave., pleaded guilty in Kanawha County Circuit Court to having oral and vaginal sex with the girl while in his home.
The city of Frederick is not bound by promises of two former mayors to waive impact fees for developers, since the promises were never approved by the city's Board of Aldermen, the Court of Special Appeals has held.The decision reverses a ruling for the developers by of a Frederick County Circuit Court judge, who found the city's promises were clear and unambiguous.Those contracts stipulated that, aside from a $1 per square foot agreed-upon fee, the city shall not collect any additional impact fee from the developers of the Riverside Corporate Park Project or their successors in title.The powers of the City's Board of Aldermen - mandate that any reasonable fee imposed by the City, in general, must have been a legislative act by the City's Board of Aldermen, and approved by the Mayor, w...
On Tuesday, Frederick County Circuit Court Judge John R. Prosser is expected to make a fateful decision. Hes due to decide whether Virginia or Vermont has jurisdiction over a child custody case. The childs biological mother, Lisa Miller-Jenkins, lives here, and wants custody of the child she raised in Vermont with her former lover, Janet Miller-Jenkins, who, for her part, is suing in Vermont for custody of the child.
Civil Practice Consent Judgment Sanctions Authority Where a trial court in a rent-and-possession case denied the defendants' motion to set aside a consent judgment and the court also imposed sanctions based on a finding that the defendants' filings were frivolous, the court properly denied the pro se motion to set aside the consent judgment, but the plaintiff's request for sanctions was premature, and violation of the specific procedural requirements of Rule 55.03 deprived the court of authority to impose sanctions. Judgment is affirmed in part; reversed in part. Fuller v. Moore (MLW No. 62917/ Case No. ED96398 - 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Cohen, J.) Appealed from circuit court, St. Louis County, Hood, J. (Frederick M. Hawk for respondent) (Michael Moore, pro...
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