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Editorial Advisory Board: Guns and the dangerously troubled
From the misery that follows school shootings, the latest one in Florida, rise clamors that something should have been done to stop the killing before it began. Often there are […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Maryland should not be the Fleeced State
Perhaps Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and celebrated author and wit, said it best: “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest […]
Waiving estate fees for low-income homeowners
Maryland’s probate procedure is likely uncharted territory for most of us. For low-income people with little knowledge of the legal requirements for transfer of inherited real property, the process of […]
Editorial Advisory Board: The right to counsel in housing cases
Baltimore struggles with appalling levels of crime and poverty, huge problems requiring multi-pronged solutions, through both civil and criminal law. Because wrongful eviction can cascade into other social ills – […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Baltimore police, heal thyself?
The federal criminal trial of former Baltimore Gun Trace Task Squad members has revealed some of the most shocking organized criminal behavior that could be alleged against police officers. Two […]
Editorial Advisory Board: On marijuana, Sessions ‘calls the question’
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded recently a 2014 memorandum regarding allocation of the Department of Justice’s resources in the prosecution of federal crimes, reverting to the well-established principles that […]
Editorial Advisory Board: With Davis’ termination comes a window of opportunity
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh fired Police Commissioner Kevin Davis last Friday morning, replacing him with Deputy Commissioner Darryl D. De Sousa, a veteran BPD officer. Davis simply could not get […]
EAB: Promote diversity, competition in cannabis program
In 2018, Maryland legislators will attempt to complete unfinished business from 2017 to promote “a successful but consumer-friendly medical cannabis industry in the State to provide patients with affordable access […]
Editorial Advisory Board: End judgement debtor body attachments
Although body attachments are identified with the Dickensian concept of debtors’ prisons, the process to obtain them is still legal. In Maryland, creditors can use the body attachment process to […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Judicial appointments, off the menu
A judicial vacancy was created earlier this year when Washington County Circuit Judge Kenneth Long Jr. reached the mandatory retirement age. Gov. Larry Hogan recently appointed Del. Brett Wilson, R-Washington, […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Raymond Chandler vs. the Rules of Professional Conduct
David Boies has had an illustrious legal career, representing, unsuccessfully, Al Gore before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore and, on the winning side in the high court, the […]
Editorial Advisory Board: No longer sheep ready to be sheared
Baltimore is a very dangerous city. Mayor Catherine Pugh recently said homicides and violent crimes against people are out of control. There is no sense blaming the police, the Judiciary, […]
