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Editorial Advisory Board: Adopt the proposed MSBA bylaw amendments
At the Maryland State Bar Association‘s Annual Meeting on Saturday morning, MSBA members will be asked to approve a number of changes to the Bar Association’s Bylaws. The changes will […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Welcome, Dean Weich
Dean Ronald Weich officially begins his term as dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law next month facing many daunting challenges and many more opportunities. As the legal […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Legislature, not court, should decide pit-bull liability
If the Humane Society has its way, the battle over pit-bull liability is headed for the General Assembly. In our view, that’s where the issue should be decided, if not […]
Editorial Advisory Board: A busman’s holiday (or boot camp) for appellate judges
When Lewis F. Powell, Jr., retired from active service as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, he asked to serve on federal courts of appeals and was […]
Editorial Advisory Board: ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?’
The Latin title of this editorial is usually translated, “Who will watch the watchers?” Sometimes the answer is the public. According to law enforcement officials, Prince George’s County Councilwoman Karen […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Currie’s ethics hearing should be open to the public
There are times when doors to the usually secret hearings of the General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics should be flung wide open. The case of state Sen. Ulysses […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Reforming the Maryland Stadium Authority
This has not been a good year for the Maryland Stadium Authority. The MSA, a state instrumentality in the Executive Branch, was formed to do what its name states: build, […]
Editorial Advisory Board: To protect and serve, but please don’t observe?
Let us start out with the premise that all citizens have the right to shoot. No, this is not another Second Amendment debate. Rather, this conversation centers on a citizen’s […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Baltimore City’s courthouse mess
The Circuit Court for Baltimore City is housed in two buildings that are woefully inadequate and are disasters waiting to happen. Visit any county in Maryland, and you will find […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Md. high court decisions too long in coming
Like the mills of the gods, the wheels of justice at Maryland‘s highest court grind “exceeding slow.” In many instances, too slow for justice. Legal Affairs Writer Steve Lash of […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Dean Closius deserves to be reinstated
The resignation of University of Baltimore School of Law Dean Phillip J. Closius was demanded Thursday afternoon by University President Robert Bogomolny. Dean Closius was appointed in 2007, following a […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Stick to the Rules
Is the Court of Appeals of Maryland seriously considering using its rule-making power to kill the contributory negligence doctrine that has been in place since the horse-and-buggy era? Perhaps so, […]
