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The State of Maryland v. Tavon Jabire Tull |
Salisbury, MD - The State of Maryland charged Tavon Jabire Tull with multiple sex crimes involving and infant. Defendant was charged with: second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense, and second-degree assault. ... More... $0 (01-30-2019 - MD) |
Family and Estate of Korryn Gaines v. Baltimore County
City of Baltimore Courthouse - Baltimore, Maryland |
Baltimore, MD - Jury Awards Family of Woman Killed by Cop $32 Million |
United States v. Jeffers |
Late in the evening of 1 June 2013, Appellant drove himself and a friend, Airman First Class (A1C) DF, to a club about an hour from the overseas base to which they were assigned. After drinking and socializing until about 0200 the following morning, they drove to a second club closer to base where they engaged in more drinking. Shortly before 0500, Appellant and A1C DF left the second club. By... More... $0 (01-30-2016 - MD) |
United States v. Sauk |
The charges in this case stemmed from the death of the appellant’s two month old son. The infant had been rushed to a local emergency room by paramedics after his parents called 911 early on the morning of 10 January 2011. When the infant arrived at the emergency room, he was not breathing, had no pulse, and was not responsive. A pediatrician was eventually able to restore the infant’s heartbea... More... $0 (01-19-2016 - MD) |
United States of America v. Kevin Garcia Fuertes, a/k/a Kerlin Esquivel-Fuentest, a/k/a Flaco and German De Jesus Ventura, a/k/a Chino, a/k/a Chalo, a/k/a Pancho, a/k/a Chaco, a/k/a Oscar |
These appeals arise from the prosecution of two members of an enterprise engaged in interstate prostitution. Following a two-week trial, a jury convicted Appellants Kevin Garcia Fuertes (“Fuertes”) and German de Jesus Ventura (“Ventura”) of conspiracy to commit, and commission of, a number of sex trafficking and related offenses. On appeal, Fuertes and Ventura make four assertions of error, two in... More... $0 (08-18-2015 - MD) |
James Coleman v. Soccer Association of Columbia |
Thirty years ago, in Harrison v. Montgomery County Bd. of Educ., 295 Md. 442, 444, 456 A.2d 894 (1983), this Court issued a writ of certiorari to decide “whether the common law doctrine of contributory negligence should be judicially abrogated in Maryland and the doctrine of comparative negligence adopted in its place as the rule governing trial of negligence actions in this State.” In a compr... More... $0 (07-09-2013 - MD) |
Donald Spangler, et al. v. Peggy McQuitty and Gary McQuitty, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Dylan McQuitty |
In this case, we have been asked to sit in judgment once again in the case of McQuitty v. Spangler, about which we previously opined, 410 Md. 1, 976 A.2d 1020 (2009) (hereinafter McQuitty I). In a series of post-trial motions following McQuitty I, Appellant, Dr. Donald Spangler, moved to reduce the verdict in favor of the Appellees, Dylan McQuitty and his parents Peggy and Gary McQuitty. After the... More... $0 (01-27-2012 - MD) |
University of Maryland Medical Systems Corporation v. Giuseppina Muti |
Presented here are claims asserted under the Wrongful Death Statute, Maryland Code (1974, 2006 Repl. Vol.), §§ 3-901 through 3-904 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article (CJ). The plaintiffs are the widow of the decedent and the adult children of her marriage with the decedent. They did not identify in their complaint, or notify, a stepson whom the decedent had adopted during a prior mar... More... $0 (05-03-2012 - MD) |
Nicole Leake v. Dondi Johnson, Jr. |
This appeal involves litigation arising from the death of Dondi Johnson, Sr., after he was arrested for public urination. Appellees, and cross-appellants, Mr. Johnson’s estate and his two sons,1 filed a wrongful death and survivorship action in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against appellants, Officers Sendy Ferdinand, Michael Riser, and Nicole Leake. A jury found in favor of appellees, a... More... $0 (04-05-2012 - MD) |
Kevin Antoione Mitchell v. Housing Authority of Baltimore City |
In the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Kevin Antoine Mitchell, the appellant, sued the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (“HABC”), the appellee, for damages for injuries he allegedly sustained due to childhood lead paint poisoning. The HABC moved for summary judgment on the ground that neither Mitchell nor a representative had satisfied the notice requirements of the Local Government Tort ... More... $0 (05-25-2011 - MD) |
On September 23, 2008, appellants, Giuseppina, Tom, and David Muti, filed a complaint in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, naming appellee, University of Maryland Medical System Corporation (“UMMS”), as the sole defendant and claiming three counts of wrongful death and one count of medical negligence as a survival action. On August 31, 2009, appellee moved to dismiss appellants’ wrongful... More... $0 (02-04-2011 - MD) |
Lanay Brown v. The Daniel Realty Co., et al. |
Lanay Brown (“Petitioner” or “Lanay”),1 was born on 17 December 1990. Since her birth, her maternal aunt, Catherlina Queen, raised her. At some time early in Lanay’s life, she and her aunt moved into a property on Reisterstown Road in Baltimore City (“the Subject Property”),2 where they resided until 1994. While Lanay and Ms. Queen lived there, the Subject Property was owned by the D... More... $0 (07-22-2009 - MD) |
Dylan McQuitty, a minor, et al. v. Donald Spangler, et al. |
In this case we explore the boundaries of the doctrine of informed consent in the context of a healthcare provider’s treatment of a patient. Petitioner, Peggy McQuitty, mother of Dylan McQuitty, who was born on May 8, 1995 with severe cerebral palsy, sued Dr. Donald Spangler in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. In addition to alleging medical malpractice, Ms. McQuitty alleged that he breac... More... $0 (07-24-2009 - MD) |
Pamela Blackwell, et al., v. Wyeth d/b/a Wyeth, Inc. et al., |
In this case, we address the boundaries of Frye-Reed1 with respect to a hypothesis proffered, on behalf of Pamela and Ernest Blackwell, Petitioner, by their expert, Dr. Mark Geier, involving whether the presence of the preservative “thimerosal”2 in childhood vaccines, causes neurological defects, such as autism,3 as well as his and four other individuals’ qualifications to be experts under M... More... $0 (05-07-2009 - MD) |
Carefirst of Maryland, Inc. d/b/a Carefist Blue Cross/Blue Shield v. Carefirst Pregnancy Centers, Inc. |
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) |
Edwin Sterling v. Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Appellants were plaintiffs in two medical malpractice actions that were filed against defendants in the Circuit Courts for Baltimore City and Wicomico County. The complaints alleged negligence against Peninsula Regional Medical Center (PRMC), Floyd Gray, M.D., a doctor with PRMC, and the Johns Hopkins Medical Center for malpractice in the diagnosis and treatment of complications surrounding ... More... $0 (07-01-2002 - MD) |
Kassama v. Magat |
In this “wrongful life” case, an infant plaintiff asserts that she would have been better off if she had never been born and that she should have been aborted. This presents a question of first impression in Maryland, viz: May a doctor whose negligence caused a mother not to abort her pregnancy be successfully sued for “wrongful life” by a genetically defective ch... More... $0 (02-28-2001 - MD) |
Michael J. Samuel v. Ford Motor Company, et al. |
Products liability - 1993 Ford Aerostar Van - The Aerostar in which the Plaintiff were riding rolled over after it was struck by Defendant Hamilton's Ford Econoline van, resulting in the death of McMichael Samuel's wife, Alicia, and their infant child, as well as serious injuries to the Bergers, who were also occupants of the vans. Ford took the position that the Mechanical Systems Analysis, I... More... $0 (04-28-2000 - MD) |