Baltimore, Maryland civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of discriminated against non-U.S. citizen worked when checking their permissin to work in the United States in violation of Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

Employers cannot treat employees differently because of citizenship, immigration status, or national origin when verifying their permission to work,â€� s... More...    $0 (10-13-2022 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland civil litigation lawyers represented Defendants accused of violating the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to build 11 multi-family housing complexes in Maryland with required accessible features for people with disabilities. As part of the settlement, the defendants also agreed to make extensive retrofits to remove accessibility barriers at ... More...    $0 (09-27-2022 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland employment law lawyers represented Defendant accused discriminating against lawful permanent resident because of his immigration status by not allowing him to choose which valid documentation to present to show his permission to work.

Before filing the complaint that prompted the department’s investigation, the aspiring worker called the Civil Rights Division’s Im... More...    $0 (11-18-2021 - MD)

Greenbelt, Maryland employment law lawyer represented Plaintiff, Roberto E. Marley, who sued Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc. on a job discrimination theory.... More...    $0 (03-17-2021 - MD)

These appeals are part of broader litigation alleging pervasive race discrimination and unlawful retaliation against three African-American police officers who worked for Pocomoke City in Worcester County, Maryland. The issues before us today arise from the interactions of one of those plaintiffs, Franklin Savage, with the State’s Attorney for Worcester County, Beau Oglesby. According to Savage, O... More...    $0 (07-14-2018 - MD)

The Association for Accessible Medicines (“AAM”) appeals the district court’s dismissal of its dormant commerce clause challenge to a Maryland statute prohibiting price gouging in the sale of prescription drugs. AAM also appeals the district court’s refusal to enjoin enforcement of the statute on the basis that it is unconstitutionally vague. We hold that the statute violates the dormant commerce ... More...    $0 (04-13-2018 - MD)

In May 2013, Rory Flynn was fired from his position at the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC,” or the “Commission”). Flynn claims that his supervisor terminated him in reprisal for raising concerns about his section’s alleged chronic inefficiency. Seeking redress under a provision of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, 5 U.S.C. § 2302(b)(8), Flynn filed suit. An Administrative Jud... More...    $0 (12-30-2017 - MD)

On the morning of December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, a gunman used an AR-15-type Bushmaster rifle and detachable thirty-round magazines to murder twenty first-graders and six adults in the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Two additional adults were injured by gunfire, and just twelve children in the two targeted classrooms were not shot. Nine terrified children ran from one of the classrooms... More...    $0 (02-22-2017 - MD)

Baltimore, MD - Leader and Two Co-Conspirators Admit to Their Roles in Six Year Scam Using Fake Companies and False Documentation to Defraud Car Dealers and Lenders

Created Shell Companies, Submitted False Documents, Including Bank Account Statements, Tax Documents, Pay Stubs, and Car Titles in Loan Applications to Purchase Vehicles and Launder Money

Sean Stanley Jackson, age 44,... More...    $0 (01-28-2017 - MD)

Petitioners, Mashea Ray-Simmons and Antionette McGouldrick, were tried jointly
with a third codefendant before a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on charges
of first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and related handgun offenses. Trial
proceeded over the course of eight days in April 2012. Petitioners were acquitted of first
degree murder but were found ... More...    $0 (03-08-2016 - MD)

Baltimore, MD - Silver Spring Man Sentenced to Prison for $1.6 Million SBA Fraud Scheme

Defendant Used Identities of Others and False Financial Information to Obtain a Small Business Loan, and Then Used Some of the Loan Proceeds to Buy a House Instead

U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Stewart Mark Twayne Harris, age 39, of Silver Spring, Maryland, to two years in p... More...    $0 (02-17-2016 - MD)

On August 12, 2013, as the temperature in Baltimore reached 91°F, Gavin Class, a Towson University student, collapsed with exertional heatstroke while practicing as a member of the Towson University football team. He was transported to the Shock Trauma Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where he remained in a coma for nine days and almost died. He suffered multi-orga... More...    $0 (11-13-2015 - MD)

Baltimore, MD - Serial Fraudster Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Business Fraud Scheme

Committed Fraud While on Supervised Release for Previous Federal Fraud Conviction

Curtis R. Martin, Jr., age 55, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 8 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud. Martin previously pleaded guilty a scheme to defraud a busi... More...    $0 (11-05-2015 - MD)

On September 5, 2006, Engler began working for Harris as a first-level contracts manager in Harris’s Columbia, Maryland office. Harris is a defense contractor and communications and information technology company headquartered in Rochester, New York. Harris hired Engler to support the Communications Security Products (“CSP”) group within the company’s RF Communications Division (“RFCD”). Engler is... More...    $0 (10-10-2015 - MD)

Greenbelt, MD - Bookkeeper Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Stealing Over $179,000 from her Employer

Fraudulently Increased Her Salary and Wrote Forged Company Checks to Herself and Others

U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Jessica Lee Warner, age 39, of Baltimore, today to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud and aggrava... More...    $0 (08-31-2015 - MD)

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., “establishes a cradle-to-grave regulatory program for hazardous waste management.” Envtl. Tech. Council v. Sierra Club, 98 F.3d 774, 779 (4th Cir. 1996). Several Maryland residents brought statutory claims under the RCRA against the current and former owners of an industrial property in Baltimore alleged to have been co... More...    $0 (07-01-2015 - MD)

Greenbelt, MD – U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Juan Carlos Willis, age 41, of Hyattsville, Maryland late to 61 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to use the stolen identity of others to purchase expensive cars.

The sentence was announced by United St... More...    $0 (06-11-2015 - MD)

Appellant Aaron Ross (“Appellantâ€�) brought this action challenging his March 12, 2008 and March 25, 2009 arrests for refusing to obey Baltimore City Police Officer Wayne Early’s (“Officer Earlyâ€�) repeated orders to confine his leafleting to the area designated for protest activities outside the First Mariner Arena (the “Arenaâ€�) in Baltimore, Maryland. The designated protest area was ... More...    $0 (03-06-2014 - MD)

This appeal comes to the Court after what the district court described as “a rather long and tortured factual history.â€� Several orders are on appeal: dismissal; grant of summary judgment; denial of a motion pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e); and denial of a motion pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b). As explained in greater detail below, we affirm in part, reverse... More...    $0 (02-21-2014 - MD)

Bethel World Outreach Ministries brought this action asserting that Montgomery County’s zoning regulations, which prevented Bethel from constructing a church, violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), the United States Constitution, and the Maryland Declaration of Rights. The district court granted summary judgment to the County on all claims. For the reasons ... More...    $0 (01-31-2013 - MD)

Appellants D.L. and his parents, K.L. and S.L., appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners ("BCBSC") and Baltimore City Public Schools. They contend that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794 ("Section 504"), compels BCBSC to provide D.L. educational services related to certain disorders even though D.L. is ... More...    $0 (01-17-2013 - MD)

Kevin Morrison, a resident of Maryland, was born in Jamaica and cannot read or write English. He filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC" or Commission) asserting that Appellee Randstad, which provides temporary staffing services to client companies, terminated his employment pursuant to a requirement that its employees read and write English. Morri... More...    $0 (07-18-2012 - MD)

This is a civil action, authorized by a State statute and by the Howard County Code, in which the plaintiff seeks damages for a school’s alleged discrimination because of the plaintiff’s handicap. We issued a writ of certiorari in the case to consider whether discrimination because of a “handicap,â€� within the meaning of the Maryland statutory provisions, should be construed “strictly to ... More...    $0 (01-26-2012 - MD)

Appellant, Jessica Port, and Appellee, Virginia Anne Cowan, married in California in 2008. Approximately two years later, Port and Cowan agreed mutually to separate. Port filed ultimately a divorce complaint, on the ground of voluntary separation, in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County (at the time, she was a resident of the County). Cowan answered the complaint in a “no contestâ€� ma... More...    $0 (05-18-2012 - MD)

We are asked to review a jury verdict in favor of the Petitioner, Julia M. Taylor, an African American female, in a suit in which she alleged both sexual discrimination and retaliatory termination against Giant of Maryland LLC, Respondent.1 The focal point of our review of the discrimination verdict is the application of “comparator evidenceâ€�2 in the context of Ms. Taylor’s claim of disparat... More...    $0 (12-06-2011 - MD)

This case involves the validity of a method used by Maryland, in the administration of an aspect of its public welfare program, to reconcile the demands of its needy citizens with the finite resources available to meet those demands. Like every other State in the Union, Maryland participates in the Federal Aid to Families



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With Dependent Children (AFDC program,... More...    $0 (05-18-1970 - MD)