This case arises out of the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of Plaintiffs Alfred
Chestnut (“Chestnut�), Andrew Stewart, Jr. (“Stewart�), and Ransom Watkins (“Watkins�)
(collectively, “Plaintiffs�) for felony murder of a 14-year-old boy named DeWitt Duckett in
1983. (ECF No. 1.) On November 25, 2019, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City granted the
Plaintiffs... More...    $0 (02-27-2022 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories.

This case arises out of the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of Plaintiffs Alfred
Chestnut (“Chestnut�), Andrew Stewart, Jr. (“Stewart�), and Ransom Watkins (“Watkins�)
(collectively, “Plaintiffsâ€�) for felony murder of a 14-year-ol... More...    $48000000 (04-28-2021 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant with engaging in a racketeering conspiracy related to a scheme to smuggle contraband the Baltimore Metropolitan Transition Center.

From June 2020 to November 2020, Shanese Butler, age 35, of Baltimore, engaged in a romantic relationship with Christopher Mann while he was a detainee at the Metropolitan Transition Center, an... More...    $0 (04-13-2023 - 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)

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)

The Association for Accessible Medicines (“AAM”) appeals the district court’s dismissal of its dormant commerce clause challenge to a Maryland statute prohibiting price gouging in the sale of prescription drugs. AAM also appeals the district court’s refusal to enjoin enforcement of the statute on the basis that it is unconstitutionally vague. We hold that the statute violates the dormant commerce ... More...    $0 (04-13-2018 - MD)

Baltimore, MD - Leigh C. Berry sued Mariott Internations, Inc., Newport Hospitality Group, Inc. and Ocean Jetty, L.L.C. on negligence theories.

04/18/2016 COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 400 receipt number 0416-5968044.), filed by Leigh C Berry. (Attachments: # 1 Election for Jury Trial, # 2 Civil Cover Sheet, # 3 Summons-Marriott, # 4 Summons-Newport, # 5 Summons-Ocean Je... More...    $0 (03-18-2018 - 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)

On June 19, 2014, a federal grand jury in Maryland returned a 23 count indictment
against Appellant and nine co-defendants. Appellant was charged in four counts:
conspiracy to commit bank fraud (Count 1), bank fraud (Count 14), aggravated identity
theft (Count 15), and conspiracy to defraud the government (Count 23). The Government
subsequently dismissed Count 23.
At ... More...    $0 (12-30-2017 - 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 (“Protoc... More...    $0 (11-14-2017 - 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)

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)

Stacy L. Lewis appeals the district court’s decision upholding the Social Security Administration’s denial of her application for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income. Because the administrative law judge (“ALJ”) did not give appropriate weight to the opinions of Lewis’ treating physicians and failed to adequately explain his decision to deny her benefits, we vacate the j... More...    $0 (06-02-2017 - MD)

The United States of America filed a complaint against the Police Department of Baltimore City and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for declaratory and injunctive relief under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. <... More...    $0 (04-08-2017 - MD)

On the morning of December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, a gunman used an AR-15-type Bushmaster rifle and detachable thirty-round magazines to murder twenty first-graders and six adults in the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Two additional adults were injured by gunfire, and just twelve children in the two targeted classrooms were not shot. Nine terrified children ran from one of the classrooms... More...    $0 (02-22-2017 - MD)

Petitioners, Mashea Ray-Simmons and Antionette McGouldrick, were tried jointly
with a third codefendant before a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on charges
of first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and related handgun offenses. Trial
proceeded over the course of eight days in April 2012. Petitioners were acquitted of first
degree murder but were found ... More...    $0 (03-08-2016 - 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)

The appellee’s case made its way to this court by way of an unusual journey. The appellee originally had his case dismissed by a general court-martial convening authority (GCMCA) following an Article 32, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 832, investigation. Shortly after dismissal, the acting Secretary of the Air Force transferred the appellee’s case to a different convening authority who ultimately referred th... More...    $0 (01-19-2016 - 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)

Appellant was a first-term Airman assigned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. While Appellant was on leave in Utah in February 2013, local civilian police arrested him for enticing a minor over the Internet and having sexual relations with a child under the age of 16. These allegations were investigated by local Utah law enforcement.
During the course of the Utah investigation, App... More...    $0 (01-09-2016 - MD)

Was Petitioner Deandre Ricardo Williams’s statement that “I don’t want to say nothing. I don’t know” an ambiguous or clear invocation of his right to remain silent under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966)? Whether Williams’s confession, given after waiving his Miranda rights, was voluntary or the product of inducement, poses another conundrum. Specifically, t... More...    $0 (12-20-2015 - 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, Michael Harris, brings this appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll
County’s judgment that ruled on his workers’ compensation claim stemming from
injuries sustained when the company vehicle he was driving was struck from behind.
Harris sustained injuries to his head, neck, and back, and he had surgery on his back.
After developing additional health issues, the Wo... More...    $0 (11-25-2015 - 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)

Upper Marlboro, MD. - Thurston Lamont Yerby convicted of double murder

The Commonwealth of Maryland charged Thurston Lamont Yerby, age 49, with first-degree murder for killing Tina Towler and James Ferguosn in the presence of Towler's disable and mute daughter, Jasmine Gilbert, on May 2, 2013. The Commonwealth claimed that Yerby killed Towler and Ferguson over a love triangle of sorts an... More...    $0 (11-08-2015 - MD)