Weichert Co. of Maryland, Inc. v. Dorothy Crago Faust, et al.
These consolidated appeals arise from an employment dispute between appellant, Weichert Company of Maryland, Inc. (“Weichert”), and appellee, Dorothy Crago Faust (“Faust”). Weichert brought suit against Faust in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, alleging breach of contract, employee piracy, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair competition. Faust counterclaimed for breach of contract... More...
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Choice Hotels International v. SM Property Management, LLC, Say-Hai Cun; May D. Cun
Below, Franchisor Choice Hotels International (Franchisor) sought
to confirm a $264,305.02 arbitration award (the Arbitration Award)
obtained by default against S.M. Property Management, L.L.C., Say-
Hai Cun, and his wife May Duong Cun (collectively Franchisees). In
response, Franchisees moved to vacate the arbitration award for lack
of notice. The district court declined to confirm the arbit... More...
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Securities and Exchange Commission v. Eric I. Tsao
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has reached a settlement of the pending insider trading charges against Eric I. Tsao, a former executive at MedImmune, Inc., a biotechnology company based in Gaithersburg, Md. The SEC's complaint, originally filed on June 2, 2003, alleged that Tsao engaged in three separate episodes of insider trading between September 1999 and Dece... More...
CoStar Group, Inc. and CoStar Realty Information, Inc. (collectively
"CoStar"), a copyright owner of numerous photographs of commercial
real estate, commenced this copyright infringement action
against LoopNet, Inc., an Internet service provider, for direct infringement
under §§ 501 and 106 of the Copyright Act because CoStar's
copyrighted photographs were posted by LoopNet's subscribers o... More...
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Lowry's Reports Inc. v. Legg Mason Inc.
Late on Friday, October 3, a jury in Baltimore, Maryland federal court, literally in the shadow of the Legg Mason tower, found that Legg Mason had willfully infringed the copyrights of Lowry's Reports, Inc., a newsletter covering stock market conditions, and awarded Lowry's just under $20 million.
Legg Mason has expressed its "shock" at the extent of the damages awarded to Lowry's by the jur... More...
In 1990, Joseph Cooper ("Cooper"), one of the plaintiffs and appellant here, purchased from Berkshire Life Insurance Company ("Berkshire"), one of the appellees, two "vanishing premium" life insurance polices insuring the lives of himself and his wife Annette Cooper. He did so, he asserts, on the basis of misrepresentations by two insurance agents, Thomas Steinhardt and Bernard Fish, also appe... More...
Gary Marland, Trustee of Marland Enterprises, Incorporated,
appeals the district court’s order awarding summary judgment to
Safeway, Incorporated, the Appellee, on Marland’s claims for breach
of contract and deceit. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.
I.
Marland Enterprises, Incorporated filed suit against Safeway,
Incorporated ("Safeway") in the Circuit Court for Montgomer... More...
The issue that we resolve in this opinion is the applicability to a leasing agent or real
estate broker of M aryland's Lead Poisoning Prevention Act, Maryland Code (1974, 1996
Repl. Vol., 2000 Cum. Supp.) § 6-801(o) of the Environment Article.1 Consistent with the
conclusions reached by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and the Court of Special
Appeals, see Dyer, et al. v. Criegler, et a l.... More...
Appellee WHE Associates, Inc. (WHE) filed suit against
appellant Konover Property Trust, Inc. (Konover), claiming that it
was entitled to a finder's fee of an amount between $2,000,000.00
and $4,000,000.00 for introducing Konover to Lazard Freres Real
Estate Investors, LLC (Lazard), an investment firm, that ultimately
invested $200,000,000.00 in Konover. At trial, the theories of
recovery as... More...
Appellant, The Fischer Organization, Inc., filed suit against
appellee, Landry’s Seafood Restaurants, Inc., in the Circuit Court
for Prince George’s County. The four-count complaint, alleging
breach of contract, quantum meruit, promissory estoppel, and fraud
in the inducement, was filed on August 12, 1999. Appellee filed
its answer on October 22, 1999. From January 10-11, 2001, a ... More...
The Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County denied a motion to
stay and petition to compel arbitration filed by NRT Mid-Atlantic,
Inc. t/a O’Connor, Piper & Flynn/ERA (“OPF”), one of the
appellants, in a suit brought against it and against Robert M.
Beall and Margaret K. Beall, the other appellants, by Innovative
Properties, Inc. (“Innovative”), the appellee. OPF n... More...
