Greenbelt, Maryland employment law lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on Maryland Wage and Hour Law violation theories.


Construction workers brought actions for unpaid wages and overtime wages under the Maryland Wage and Hour Law ("MWHL"), Md. Code Ann., Lab. &Empl. (1991, 2016 Repl. Vol.) ("LE") §§ 3-401 to 3-431, and the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law (... More...    $0 (07-13-2022 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, conspiracy to deprive others of their civil rights, falsification of records, false declaration before a grand jury.

Robert Hankard, age 45, of Baltimore, was indicted for providing a BB gun that he knew would be planted on a suspect, falsely testifying t... More...    $0 (04-12-2022 - MD)

Greenbelt, Maryland theft of government property charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant.

Eddie Ray Johnson, Jr., age 60, of Brandywine, Maryland, was charged with theft of government property, in connection with a scheme to use his government-issued travel credit card to obtain more than $1.1 million in cash advances.

“Eddie Johnson betrayed his position of trust... More...    $0 (05-25-2021 - MD)

Greenbelt, Maryland - Wire fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Lachann Alexis Green, age 36, of Laurel, Maryland, who was charged with wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud her employer, causing a loss to the business of at least $285,703.09.

According to her guilty plea, from October 2017 through December 2018, Green was the general manager of Rhode Island Row, an a... More...    $0 (02-17-2021 - MD)

Elkton, Maryland - Criminal Defense Attorney, manufacture of crack cocaine, possession of crack cocaine, possession of heroin, possession of Suboxone,and possession of paraphernalia

A single witness testified at appellant’s bench trial: Maryland State Trooper
Michael Dowling. According to Trooper Dowling, he, along with “seven [or] eight”
1 According to the testimony, Suboxone is... More...    $0 (10-08-2020 - MD)

This appeal is pursued by the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (the “Guild”) from the judgment in the District of Maryland ordering forfeiture to the United States of seven ancient Cypriot coins and eight ancient Chinese coins, which were imported into this country by the Guild. Incorporated within its challenge to the propriety of the district court’s summary judgment decision, the Guild contests th... More...    $0 (08-14-2018 - 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)

Baltimore, MD - Maryland Man Pleads Guilty to Failure to File a Foreign Agent Registration Statement

Nisar Ahmed Chaudhry, 71, of Columbia, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to failure to file a foreign agent registration statement.

The guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur for the District of Maryla... More...    $0 (05-07-2018 - MD)

This matter involves a school resource officer’s decision to handcuff a calm, compliant elementary school student for fighting with another student three days prior. The child brought a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for excessive use of force in violation of the Fourth Amendment and several state law claims. On a motion for summary judgment, the district court concluded that the officer’s conduct d... More...    $0 (02-14-2018 - MD)

The Wikimedia Foundation and eight other organizations appeal the dismissal of their complaint challenging Upstream surveillance, an electronic surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency (the “NSA”). The district court, relying on the discussion of speculative injury from Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), held that the allegations in the complaint wer... More...    $0 (05-24-2017 - MD)

The United States of America filed a complaint against the Police Department of Baltimore City and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for declaratory and injunctive relief under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. <... More...    $0 (04-08-2017 - MD)

Judge Michael D. Mason of the Maryland Circuit Court for Montgomery County entered an $87,727.76 judgment against Plaintiffs Robert Horowitz and Cathy Horowitz and in favor of the law firm of Selzer Gurvitch Rabin Wetheimer Polott & Obecny, P.C. (“Selzer”). Following entry of that judgment, the Horowitzes1 brought the instant action alleging that two Selzer attorneys—Defendants Maury S. Epner and ... More...    $0 (03-13-2017 - 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)

At approximately seven in the evening on August 9, 2012, Prince George’s
County Police executed a search warrant at apartment 102 located at 8018 14th Avenue
in Hyattsville. The apartment was small and compact and contained a single bath, a
galley-style kitchen and one bedroom, although the living room contained at least one
other bed. When police entered the apartment, they en... More...    $0 (03-08-2016 - MD)

On the first day of trial, April 2, 2015, the parties appeared before an administrative
judge, who denied a request for postponement by an assistant public defender representing
appellant. The following colloquy transpired between appellant’s counsel and the trial judge:
[APPELLANT'S COUNSEL]: We are here for trial today. It has been Mr. Gear's intention from the first day that I met... More...    $0 (01-04-2016 - MD)

Appellant pled not guilty at trial by military judge alone to multiple specifications of attempted murder, robbery, assault, housebreaking, fleeing apprehension, and unlawful entry in violation of Articles 80, 122, 128, 130, and 134, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. §§ 880, 922, 928, 930 and 934. Appellant was convicted of four specifications of robbery, two specifications of unlawful entry, one specification of ... More...    $0 (01-02-2016 - MD)

The FLSA protects “all covered workers from substandard wages and oppressive working hours.” Barrentine v. ArkansasBest Freight Sys., Inc., 450 U.S. 728, 739 (1981); see also 29 U.S.C. § 202(a) (noting that the FLSA protects “the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers”). Toward these ends, the FLSA establishes the general rule that employer... More...    $0 (12-21-2015 - MD)

On appeal, Daniel Blue (Blue) challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions on a single count of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and aiding and abetting the same in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2, and a single count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroi... More...    $0 (12-10-2015 - MD)

In his role as legal custodian of millions of dollars’ worth of unclaimed property, the Comptroller enters and stores in a database information regarding the property he is holding and who might be entitled to claim it. As the Comptroller receives each piece of abandoned property, his staff logs data about the property, its value, and the likely owner into the Comptroller’s database. The Comptro... More...    $0 (11-26-2015 - MD)

The parties to this case (or their predecessors) developed the Mall in the early 1970s.
The Mall is not a singular property, but rather a confederation of separately owned tracts
that are integrated and governed according to a Construction, Operation and Reciprocal
Easement Agreement (“COREA”). The COREA has been modified three times, and the
operative version, the aptly named... More...    $0 (11-22-2015 - MD)

Appellant was implicated in a series of robberies in Wichita, Kansas. On 3 March 2013, Appellant robbed a Family Dollar store, assaulting an employee in the process. Civilian law enforcement officials responded, and Appellant fled to a nearby apartment building where he unlawfully entered the basement in an attempt to evade police. He was eventually apprehended. Through the use of DNA collecte... More...    $0 (11-21-2015 - MD)

Appellant was implicated in a series of robberies in Wichita, Kansas. On 3 March 2013, Appellant robbed a Family Dollar store, assaulting an employee in the process. Civilian law enforcement officials responded, and Appellant fled to a nearby apartment building where he unlawfully entered the basement in an attempt to evade police. He was eventually apprehended. Through the use of DNA collecte... More...    $0 (11-21-2015 - MD)

Son was born on January 6, 2009, and Mother (who has never been married to
Father) named him “Kaio Henrique Stockmann Kreyhsig.” Father does not dispute
paternity, but the parties do dispute the extent to which Mother has included Father in Son’s
upbringing. Mother alleges that Father “took no part” in Son’s life for a year after he was
born. Father claims that Mother did not t... More...    $0 (11-11-2015 - MD)

The parties to this appeal are appellant, Allstate Insurance Company (“Allstate”), and
appellee, Austria Kponve (“Mrs. Kponve”). At all times here pertinent, Allstate provided
underinsured motorist coverage to Mrs. Kponve. On April 10, 2009, while Allstate’s policy was in force, Mrs. Kponve was involvedin an automobile accident with a motorist named Douglas Leonel Mendoza (“Mendoza”).
... More...    $0 (11-09-2015 - MD)

Appellant was born at the Florence Crittenton Maternity Home in Washington, D.C.,
on May 1, 1958. His natural mother was an unmarried 33-year-old secretary who had
concealed her pregnancy from her parents, quit her job with the federal government, and
entered a maternity home sometime after Christmas in 1957. According to the 1958 Report
of Adoption Investigation, appellant’s mot... More...    $0 (11-08-2015 - MD)

During a disciplinary proceeding against appellee Mark Geier, M.D., the Maryland
Board of Physicians publicly disclosed confidential medical information concerning Dr.
Geier, his wife Anne, and their son David. David Geier was the subject of a separate
disciplinary proceeding at the time of the disclosures.
The Geiers responded to the disclosures by accusing the Board, its 22 ... More...    $0 (10-25-2015 - MD)

Baltimore, MD - Third Commercial Trash Hauler Admits to Bribing Baltimore City Landfill Employees

Larry Lowry, age 61, of Orchard Beach, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bribery in connection with a scheme in which commercial haulers paid Department of Public Works (DPW) employees cash in return for allowing the haulers to deposit trash at the Quarantine Road Landfill (Landfill)... More...    $0 (09-18-2015 - MD)

Baltimore, MD - Woodlawn Man Exiled to 100 Months in Prison for Illegal Possession of Stolen Guns and Ammunition

Sentenced to an Additional 18 Months in Prison for Violating His Supervised Release for a Previous Federal Conviction

Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake, sentenced Nishon Rainner, age 31, of Woodlawn, Maryland, today to 100 months in prison, followed by three... More...    $0 (09-18-2015 - MD)

Greenbet, MD - Employee Admits Stealing at Least $414,000 from the Bethesda Company Where She Worked

Amy Ranee Powell, age 41, of Huntingtown, Maryland pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of stolen money in connection with a scheme to embezzle over $414,000 from her employer.

The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosen... More...    $0 (09-18-2015 - MD)

Greenbelt, MD - Russian Nuclear Energy Official Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Violations of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act

U.S. Conspirators Paid Over $2 Million to Influence Russian Nuclear Energy Official and to Secure Business with State-Owned Russian Nuclear Energy Company

Vadim Mikerin, age 56, a Russian official residing in Chevy Chase, Maryland... More...    $0 (08-31-2015 - MD)

These appeals arise from the prosecution of two members of an enterprise engaged in interstate prostitution. Following a two-week trial, a jury convicted Appellants Kevin Garcia Fuertes (“Fuertes”) and German de Jesus Ventura (“Ventura”) of conspiracy to commit, and commission of, a number of sex trafficking and related offenses. On appeal, Fuertes and Ventura make four assertions of error, two in... More...    $0 (08-18-2015 - MD)