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State of Maryland v. Raphael Mayorga
Rockville, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with DUI and causing an accident and attempted murder. Raphael Mayorga was charged on an 18 count indictment for drving while intoxicated and running over Sgt. Patrick Kepp. Mayorga struck Sgt. Patrick Kepp, who was laying down stop sticks, with his vehicle on I-270 while eluding officers. He was drivin...
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( 04-11-2025 - MD)

State of Maryland v. Todd E. immel
Rockville, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with solicitation of a law enforcement officer posing as a minor to engage in sexual activities. Detective Lindsay Greene of the Montgomery County Police Department, Special Investigations Division and Intelligence Unit, set up an undercover profile on social media sites she identified as "Scout" and "MeetMe," ...
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( 01-13-2025 - MD)

Fedor Karmanov v. Iuliia Vysotina
Rockville, Maryland family law lawyers represented man and woman in a protective order dispute. Husband and Wife, both natives of Russia, married in February 2022. They have one child together, a daughter born in August 2023 ("Child"). At the time of the December 2023 incident leading to the filing, by both parties, of the protective orders at issue here, Husband was fo...
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( 10-17-2024 - MD)

Commonwealth of Maryland v. Eduwardo Valdivia
Rockville, Maryland criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree assault, firearm use/felony/violent crime and reckless endangerment charges. Eduardo Valdivia, an FBI agent, shot a man who approached him on a Red Line train near the Medical Center station on December 15, 2020 and requested money....
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( 12-02-2022 - MD)

Anthony Fludd v. Donielle Kirkwood
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( 05-13-2022 - MD)

Anthony Fludd v. Donielle Kirkwood
Annapolis, MD - Divorce lawyer represented appelant with a motion to modify. For nearly a decade, the parents of the two children at the center of this case have been fighting over custody and child support, flooding the docket in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County with over 500 entrie...
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( 03-16-2022 - MD)

State of Maryland v. Daniel Beckwitt
Rockwille, MD - The State of Maryland charged Daniel Beckwitt, age 27, with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter as a result of the death of Askia Khafra, age 21, who died as a result of a fire in an underground nuclear bunker at the Defendant's Maryland home. ...
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( 04-27-2019 - MD)

Richard Ramlall v. Mobilepro Corp.
On June 4, 2009 appellant, Richard Ramlall, filed a complaint against appellees, MobilePro Corp. and CloseCall America, Inc., in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County seeking damages of $144,999.99 for breach of contract. On May 18, 2010 the circuit court granted MobilePro’s motion for summary judgment, and following a bench trial on July 14, 2010 the circuit court granted CloseCall’s motion...
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( 10-28-2011 - MD)

Donna Jackson v. Edgewood Management Corporation
Donna Jackson sued Edgewood Management Corporation for retaliating against her for reporting a violation of Maryland statute that prohibits discrimination for reporting gender discrimination. ...
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( 10-01-2011 - MD)

Xiufeng Wang v. Milestone Construction Services and Hakes Contracting
Xiufeng Wang sued Milestone Construction Services and Hakes Contracting on negligence theories for her injuries and for the wrongful death on his wife's death. Plaintiff claimed that she was injured and her husband killed when they were run over by a dump truck that was backing up in a closed traffic lane adjacent to the Germantown/Kingsview Fire Statation No. 22 construction site. Xiufeng Wang s...
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( 08-02-2011 - MD)

Sarah Paseltiner v. Nordstrom
Sarah Paseltiner sued Nordstrom's on a negligence theory for the injury and damages that she sustained as a result of being stabbed in 2005 while shopping at the Westfield Montgomery Shopping Mark.At 7 p.m. May 25, 2005, Antoinette Starks, who was homeless at the time, approached the customer service counter with a bag containing four butcher knives taped together to make two knives, accor...
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( 04-19-2011 - MD)

Susan Eynon Lark v. Montgomery Hospice, Inc.
The parties to this appeal from the Circuit Court for Montgomery County,1 Susan Eynon Lark (Appellant), and Montgomery Hospice Inc. (Appellee), present us with two questions of statutory interpretation.2 We must determine whether a former employee is entitled to assert a wrongful discharge action under the Health Care Worker Whistleblower Protection Act (1) even if he or she never reported to an e...
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( 05-14-2010 - MD)

Alcoa Concrete & Masonry, Inc. v. Stalker Brothers, Inc.
We are called upon here to construe the Maryland Home Improvement Law (the Act), Maryland Code (1975, 2004 Repl. Vol.), §§ 8-100 through 8-702 of the Business Regulation Article.1 At issue is whether a home improvement general contractor is contractually obligated to pay a subcontractor who was not licensed under the Act, either at the time of entering into the subcontract or when the subcontrac...
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( 04-02-2010 - MD)

Norman A. Lockshin, M.D., P.A. v. Barbara S. Semsker
The Circuit Court for Montgomery County held in this litigation, among other things, that the plain meaning of Md. Code, Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article1 § 3-2A-09(a) (1974, 2006 Repl. Vol.), which states that the monetary cap on non-economic damages for health care malpractice claims appearing in § 3-2A-09(b) applies “to an award under § 3-2A- 05 of this subtitle or a verdict under § ...
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( 01-13-2010 - MD)

Glenn Hawkins v. Rockville Printing & Graphics, Inc., et al.
Appellant, Glenn Hawkins, brought suit in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County against appellees, Rockville Printing & Graphics, Inc. (“RPG”), and Rockville Color, LLC (“RC”), for violating the Montgomery County Human Rights Act (“MCHRA”) and Perceived Disability provision of the Montgomery County Code (“MCC”). Hawkins appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of RPG and RC...
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( 11-25-2009 - MD)

Barbara Abrishamian v. Earl Barbely
This case arises from a tort suit brought by appellant, Barbara Abrishamian, against appellee, Earl Barbely, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. Prior to the start of testimony, appellant moved for the judge’s recusal, which motion the trial court denied. During testimony, appellant moved for a mistrial based on the admission of prejudicial evidence, which the trial court also denied. Af...
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( 10-05-2009 - MD)

Mary Linklater v. Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and Rufus S. Lusk III
Mary Linklater sued the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and pastor Rufus S. Lusk III for intentional infliction of emotional distress after she was ostracized from Prince of Peace Lutheran Church because of a campaign of retaliatory harassment by its pastor at the time, the Rev. Rufus S. Lusk III, and his allies....
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( 03-03-2005 - MD)

Estate of Monica George, et al. v. Pfizer
Products liability - prescription diabetes drug Rezulin - wrongful death - Rezulin, which was used to treat Type II, or adult-onset diabetes, has been blamed for dozens of deaths from liver failure, and thousands of other liver damage problems around the world, from 1997 to 2000. In their lawsuit against the drug-maker, Monica George's three daughters also contended that Warner-Lambert covered up...
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( 02-05-2002 - MD)

Phyllis R. Kirson v. Suburban Hospital, et al.
Medical Malpractice - Slip and Fall - On August 6, 1993, Phyllis R. Kirson ("Kirson"), a sixty-year-old nurse at Suburban Hospital, fell in the operating room during the course of her employment. As a result of the fall, Kirson suffered a fractured right femur just above a right total knee prosthesis and was admitted as a patient...
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( 11-27-1999 - MD)

Suburban Hospital, Inc., et al. v. Phyllis R. Kirson
Negligence - Personal Injury - On August 6, 1993, Phyllis R. Kirson ("Kirson"), a sixty-year-old nurse at Suburban Hospital, fell in the operating room during the course of her employment. As a result of the fall, Kirson suffered a fractured right femur just above a right total knee prosthesis and was admitted as a patient to Suburban Hospital. On August 7, Kirson underwent surgery at Suburb...
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( 10-27-1999 - MD)

State Roads Commission of the State Highway Administration v. Wesley A. Bryan,et al.
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. ...
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( 09-10-1999 - MD)

Liberty Mutural Insurance Company, et al. v. Ben Lewis Plumbing, Heating & Air conditioning
Breach of contract - creditors action by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company against Ben Lewis Plumbing, Heating & Airconditioning for premiums due on workers' compensation insurance coverage provided to defendant which counterclaimed for negligent misrepresentation. ...
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( 06-15-1999 - MD)

COUNCIL OF UNIT OWNERS OF BENTLEY PLACE CONDOMINIUM v. THE MILTON COMPANY ET AL.
This building construction case involves the Bentley Place Condominium (the Condominium), a complex consisting of 240 residential units in 20 two-story buildings located on approximately 14.2 acres in Montgomery County, Maryland. Bentley Place was built in phases. The first sales of units were on January 31, 1987, and sales to original purchasers continued through July 24, 1991. By a letter dated ...
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( 05-18-1999 - MD)

Fischer-Frey, et al. v. Onco Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
Medical malpractice - failure to properly perform cytopatholgical examination of pap smear. Onco Diagnostic Systems, Inc. reported the Pap smear test as normal on tests performed in April and December 1992. Plaintiff, age 36, was later diagnosed has having cervical cancer and underwent a radical hysterectomy. She also developed squamous cell carcinoma of the vagina and surrounding tissue. ...
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( 04-16-1999 - MD)

Julia D. Beynon et al. v. Montgomery Cablevision Limited Partnership et al.
Plaintiff sued the defendant for the death of Douglas Beynon who was killed during a traffic delay along a freeway. Beynon stopped when the traffic backed up approximately 1 mile due to a road closure resulting from repairs being completed by Montgomery Cablevision. During the congestion Beynon was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck which took his life....
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( 10-09-1998 - MD)

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