Federal Courthou... More...    $0 (03-01-2023 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming $1.5 million in damages and/or injuries.... More...    $1 (01-19-2022 - MD)

This appeal is pursued by the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (the “Guild”) from the judgment in the District of Maryland ordering forfeiture to the United States of seven ancient Cypriot coins and eight ancient Chinese coins, which were imported into this country by the Guild. Incorporated within its challenge to the propriety of the district court’s summary judgment decision, the Guild contests th... More...    $0 (08-14-2018 - MD)

These appeals are part of broader litigation alleging pervasive race discrimination and unlawful retaliation against three African-American police officers who worked for Pocomoke City in Worcester County, Maryland. The issues before us today arise from the interactions of one of those plaintiffs, Franklin Savage, with the State’s Attorney for Worcester County, Beau Oglesby. According to Savage, O... More...    $0 (07-14-2018 - MD)

Troy D. Price, Jr., appeals the district court’s order entering judgment in favor of
Mos Shipping Co., Ltd. (“Mos”), following a jury trial, and the district court’s order
denying Price’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(a) motion for a new trial. Mos cross-appeals,
challenging the district court’s orders denying its pretrial motion for summary judgment
and granting the pretrial motion in l... More...    $0 (07-06-2018 - MD)

Rockville Cars, LLC and Priority 1 Automotive Group, Inc. (“Rockville Cars”), brought a Section 1983 suit in the District of Maryland against the City of Rockville, Maryland (“the City”) and its Acting Chief of Inspection Services, Robert L. Purkey, Jr. In its action, Rockville Cars alleged a violation of its procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when the City suspended its ... More...    $0 (05-24-2018 - MD)

MEYER, District Judge.

On September 21, 1987, Quality Inns International, Inc. announced a new chain of economy hotels to be marketed under the name "McSleep Inn." The response of McDonald's Corporation was immediate. It demanded by letter sent three days later that Quality International not use the name "McSleep" because it infringed on McDonald's family of marks that are characterized b... More...    $0 (09-16-1988 - MD)

This matter involves a school resource officer’s decision to handcuff a calm, compliant elementary school student for fighting with another student three days prior. The child brought a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for excessive use of force in violation of the Fourth Amendment and several state law claims. On a motion for summary judgment, the district court concluded that the officer’s conduct d... More...    $0 (02-14-2018 - MD)

Kenneth Lucero (“Appellant”) was arrested in April 2010 after leafleting outside a
Baltimore arena during a performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey
Circus (“Circus”). Specifically, he was arrested for failing to confine his leafleting to an
area designated for protest activities, as set forth in a protocol formulated by Baltimore’s
legal department in 2004 (“Protoc... More...    $0 (11-14-2017 - MD)

This case arises from an amendment to Rockville’s zoning ordinance that prohibited the construction of self-storage facilities within 250 feet of property on which a public school is located. Appellants Siena Corporation and Rockville North Land LLLP (collectively “Siena”) complain that the enactment of this amendment amounted to a denial of their due process and equal protection rights under the ... More...    $0 (11-13-2017 - MD)

Following an investigation of Melina Ali’s income tax liability, the Internal Revenue Service issued a summons to her seeking various documents. When Ali failed to produce certain documents, the district court held her in contempt. Ali appeals, and for the reasons that follow, we affirm.
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This case involves a complex factual and procedural history, which we need only briefly summarize. I... More...    $0 (11-06-2017 - MD)

In these proceedings, plaintiff Wayne Oliver filed a complaint in Maryland state court alleging asbestos exposure claims against, among other defendants, Campbell-McCormick, Inc. (“CMC”). In response, CMC filed a third-party complaint against several entities, including General Electric Company (“GE”). GE then removed the litigation to the District of Maryland, prompting Oliver to move to sever hi... More...    $0 (11-06-2017 - MD)

In this case we are called upon to decide whether the Establishment Clause is violated when a local government displays and maintains on public property a 40-foot tall Latin cross, established in memory of soldiers who died in World War I. The district court determined that such government action does not run afoul of the Establishment Clause because the cross has a secular purpose, it neither adv... More...    $0 (10-24-2017 - MD)

This case arises out of appellant Keri Borzilleri’s suit alleging that appellee Marilyn Mosby fired her for supporting Mosby’s political rival, thereby violating Borzilleri’s First Amendment rights. The district court determined that, as an Assistant State’s Attorney, Borzilleri was a policymaker exempt from the First Amendment’s protection against patronage dismissals. We affirm. To hold otherwis... More...    $0 (10-17-2017 - MD)

Kenneth Lucero (“Appellant”) was arrested in April 2010 after leafleting outside a Baltimore arena during a performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (“Circus”). Specifically, he was arrested for failing to confine his leafleting to an area designated for protest activities, as set forth in a protocol formulated by Baltimore’s legal department in 2004 (“Protocol”). Appellant ... More...    $0 (10-14-2017 - mD)

For over a year, Appellant Marlow Humbert languished in pretrial solitary confinement, charged with committing a heinous act of sexual assault. The questionable investigatory strategies of Baltimore City Police Department (“BPD”) officers led to Humbert’s unlawful arrest. Afterwards, the officers failed to inform the State’s Attorney that the victim could not positively identify Humbert and that D... More...    $0 (08-24-2017 - MD)

Judge Michael D. Mason of the Maryland Circuit Court for Montgomery County entered an $87,727.76 judgment against Plaintiffs Robert Horowitz and Cathy Horowitz and in favor of the law firm of Selzer Gurvitch Rabin Wetheimer Polott & Obecny, P.C. (“Selzer”). Following entry of that judgment, the Horowitzes1 brought the instant action alleging that two Selzer attorneys—Defendants Maury S. Epner and ... More...    $0 (03-13-2017 - MD)

At approximately seven in the evening on August 9, 2012, Prince George’s
County Police executed a search warrant at apartment 102 located at 8018 14th Avenue
in Hyattsville. The apartment was small and compact and contained a single bath, a
galley-style kitchen and one bedroom, although the living room contained at least one
other bed. When police entered the apartment, they en... More...    $0 (03-08-2016 - MD)

In May 2013, Detective M, a member of the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office (who was also a member of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force) saw a posted advertisement on Craigslist.com soliciting sex but identifying no age restriction. The detective adopted the assumed identity of a 13-year-old female and responded to the posting. Over the next two days, the detective corresponded with “S... More...    $0 (01-17-2016 - MD)

On appeal, Daniel Blue (Blue) challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions on a single count of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and aiding and abetting the same in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2, and a single count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroi... More...    $0 (12-10-2015 - MD)

Appellant wrongfully used marijuana at a party in November 2013 and again at a party in December 2013. At the December party, Appellant also wrongfully used cocaine. During his Care inquiry,1 Appellant explained that he took more than one hit from the marijuana cigarette he smoked at the party in November. According to Appellant, this party was on a weekend and he was selected for a random urin... More...    $0 (11-28-2015 - MD)

Over the course of Appellant’s first four years in the Air Force, he was engaged in multiple tumultuous relationships, three of which resulted in charges in this case. In 2009, about a year after joining the Air Force, Appellant married KM, a woman from his hometown. KM served on active duty for a short period of time but was medically retired due to issues with her hips that developed during in... More...    $0 (11-14-2015 - MD)

On April 15, 2014, FedFirst and CB Financial announced that the two corporations
had executed a merger agreement that, if approved by the stockholders of a majority of the
outstanding shares of stock, would result in the merger of FedFirst and CB Financial.2 The
merger agreement provided that FedFirst shareholders would receive either $23.00 in cash
or 1.1590 shares of CB Fina... More...    $0 (11-09-2015 - MD)

In November 2010, Mabinty Sesay was a practical nurse licensed by the State of
Maryland and employed by Maxim Health Care Services (“Maxim”). On the dates of
November 27-28, Ms. Sesay was assigned to provide in-home, overnight nursing care to
E.C., a young man with quadriplegia who has no movement, aside from weak use of his
biceps and triceps, from the chest down. He also ha... More...    $0 (10-28-2015 - MD)

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., “establishes a cradle-to-grave regulatory program for hazardous waste management.” Envtl. Tech. Council v. Sierra Club, 98 F.3d 774, 779 (4th Cir. 1996). Several Maryland residents brought statutory claims under the RCRA against the current and former owners of an industrial property in Baltimore alleged to have been co... More...    $0 (07-01-2015 - MD)

James Owens brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office, an assistant State’s Attorney, the Baltimore City Police Department, and several Baltimore City police officers. In his complaint, Owens alleges that the defendants violated his constitutional rights by intentionally withholding exculpatory evidence during his 1988 trial for the rape... More...    $0 (09-24-2014 - MD)