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Managing ‘the largest law garden in the U.S.’
When he’s not up to his ears in work as the managing partner of Kramer & Connolly, you can often find Irwin R. Kramer out back, up to his ears in peppers, tomatoes, squash and herbs behind the four-lawyer firm’s historic Main Street office in Reisterstown.
Top court gives speed-camera suit a red light
Despite being unpopular to the point of people taking bats and rocks to them, speed cameras in one Maryland county are not going anywhere after the Court of Appeals last week upheld the dismissal of a class action lawsuit that challenged their legality.
‘SDAnon’ hit with lawsuit
An Australian “theological detective” with a team of hired hackers stole thousands of digitized pages of unpublished documents belonging to the estate of the co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a federal lawsuit alleges.
Top court limits pit bull liability to purebreds
In a surprise move, Maryland’s top court on Tuesday said it had reconsidered its contentious ruling on liability for pit bull attacks and decided that, for now, it should apply only to purebred pit bulls.
Top court takes on foreclosure rules in unrelated cases
In two separate opinions published Monday, the Maryland Court of Appeals interpreted recent foreclosure laws that were enacted to protect defaulting borrowers and people who rent from them.
‘Fuvista’ CEO gets out of jail, but not for free
After spending two weeks in jail in three states and two countries, Creative Pipe Inc. CEO Mark T. Pappas was given a conditional release on Friday after wiring $120,000 from his corporate account to pay down earlier civil sanctions against him.
Nursing home administrator wins FMLA suit
A nursing home administrator was awarded $253,340 in lost wages and damages after a federal judge found she was fired in violation of the federal Family Medical Leave Act, or FMLA.
Interested party or public relations nightmare?
At what point do you have to step back and ask if someone could ask if you are “paying to defend your customer’s killer?”
Back from Belize, Pappas denied bail
Over protestations that he had been illegally “kidnapped” from his beachfront condo in the Central American country of Belize, Creative Pipe CEO Mark T. Pappas was denied bail Wednesday and […]
Governor considering pardons for 13
Gov. Martin O’Malley is weighing pardons for 13 people convicted of relatively minor offenses dating back to the 1980s and 1990s.
Suit blames deputy for reverend’s death
A sheriff deputy’s decision to stop a Good Samaritan from performing CPR on a man suffering from a heart attack ultimately caused his death, according to a $4 million wrongful death lawsuit filed Tuesday in Harford County Circuit Court.
Infringer hauled back from Belize to face civil contempt charges
After years of destroying evidence and ignoring court orders in a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit, Mark T. Pappas, CEO of Creative Pipe Inc., was arrested at his beachfront condo in Central America ...
