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)

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)

In this appeal, we decide whether a "biological opinion" ("BiOp") issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service ("Fisheries Service" or "the Service") to the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") is arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 706. The BiOp, which the Fisheries Service provided as part of the EPA’s process of reregistering the pesticides chlor... More...    $0 (02-21-2013 - MD)

Appellants, Angelo N. Amabile and wife (the Amabiles), here seek to overturn the decree of a trial judge (Macgill, C.J.) in the Circuit Court for Howard County as modified by the Court of Special Appeals in Amabile v. Winkles, 24 Md. App. 292, 330 A.2d 473 (1975). The facts were fully set forth in that opinion. We shall relate only such facts as are necessary for a full understanding of the contro... More...    $0 (10-28-1975 - MD)

"Under the doctrine of overbreadth, a statute violates the First Amendment it if prohibits a substantial amount of protected expression." PSINet, Inc. v. Chapman, 362 F.3d 227, 234 (4th Cir. 2004). Defendants appeal a permanent injunction prohibiting the enforcement of a Maryland statute due to its overbreadth. We conclude that the statute—which limits the range of permissible conduct, attire, a... More...    $0 (02-17-2011 - MD)

This appeal arises from the termination of appellee, Calvin Elliott, Jr., from his position as a Deputy Sheriff with the Howard County Sheriff’s Office (“Sheriff’s Officeâ€�) on October 28, 2005. On December 14, 2005, Elliott filed a complaint for a show cause order in the Circuit Court for Howard County pursuant to the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights (“LEOBRâ€�), Maryland Code ... More...    $0 (01-27-2010 - MD)

The notion of alimony totally disconnected from a divorce, albeit a practice boasting a venerable pedigree, has become at least quaintly anachronistic, if not actually vestigial, in 21st Century Maryland. Just such a self-contained grant of alimony, however, is what we are urged to hold survived the shipwreck of a divorce proceeding in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County on January 9, 200... More...    $0 (11-25-2009 - MD)

We are asked in this case to decide whether an inter vivos transfer, in which a deceased spouse reta ined control over the transferred property during his lifetime, constitutes a per se violation of the surviving spouse’s statutory, elective right to a percentage of the deceased spouse’s net estate under Maryland Code (1974, 2001 Repl. Vol., 2008 Cum. Supp.), Estates and Trusts Article, § 3-2... More...    $0 (11-12-2008 - MD)

Howard County School System sued Chris Pippen on a eminent domain theory to acquire by condemnation 1.3 acres of land to be sued as the front entrance of a new Ellicott City elementary school. ... More...    $825000 (08-24-2006 - MD)

CoStar Group, Inc. and CoStar Realty Information, Inc. (collectively "CoStar"), a copyright owner of numerous photographs of commercial real estate, commenced this copyright infringement action against LoopNet, Inc., an Internet service provider, for direct infringement under §§ 501 and 106 of the Copyright Act because CoStar's copyrighted photographs were posted by LoopNet's subscribers o... More...    $0 (06-21-2004 - MD)

In this appeal, we address whether an Illinois organization subjected itself to personal jurisdiction in Maryland by operating an Internet website that allegedly infringed the trademark rights of a Maryland insurance company. Carefirst of Maryland ("Carefirst") accuses Chicago-based Carefirst Pregnancy Centers, Inc. ("CPC") of selecting the name CAREFIRST, despite having notice both of Car... More...    $0 (07-02-2003 - MD)

On a motion for summary judgment filed in this copyright infringement action, the district court held that the defendants' copying of a copyrighted manuscript for introduction into evidence in a state-court child-custody proceeding constituted a "fair use" of the manuscript under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 107, when the substance of the manuscript was relevant to the issues in the child-c... More...    $0 (01-24-2003 - MD)

On 15 March 2000, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (“the Commission”), Respondent, filed a complaint for condemnation in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County seeking to acquire fee simple title to a 29,238 square foot parcel of land located in the City of Takoma Park (“the Property”). At the time of initiation of the condemnation action, the... More...    $0 (03-05-2002 - MD)

(In American Infometrics, Plaintiffs, a Maryland ISP were seeking to bring trademark infringement claims against our California ISP client in the federal district court for Maryland. These claims arose from Plaintiffs "ownership" of a trademark allegedly confusingly similar to our client's long-held domain name. We successfully moved to dismiss the claims for lack of personal jurisdiction si... More...    $0 (04-12-2001 - MD)

Condemnation - Eminent Domain - The plaintiff filed a quick take action against the defendant in order to condemn some property owned by the defendant and widen a state highway. The plaintiffs later filed a formal petition for the same purpose. The defendant is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation and needed the property for a project to widen Hampshire Avenue in Montgomery County. ... More...    $12800 (09-10-1999 - MD)