Baltimore, Maryland personal injury lawyer who represented the Plaintiff was convicted of a crime he did not commit when justice went to hell.

In 2018, Gary Washington (“Appellant�) was released from prison on a writ of
actual innocence after serving 31 years of incarceration for murder.

In the civil lawsuit that is the subject of this appeal, Appellant accused the police... More...    $0 (01-10-2025 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland personal injury car wreck lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on an auto negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in damages and/or injuries as a direct result of an auto accident caused by Daly's failure to exercise due care in the operation of his vehicle.

Maryland's auto negligence law.

Contributory negligence: ... More...    $0 (12-22-2023 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland intellectual property lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a copy right infringement theory.

Strike 3 Holdings is a company that owns the copyright on some pornographic films. They produce adult films under the brand names Slayed,...

"Copyright infringement law is a body of law that protects the original works of authors, including lite... More...    $0 (11-13-2023 - MD)

This case arises out of the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of Plaintiffs Alfred
Chestnut (“Chestnut�), Andrew Stewart, Jr. (“Stewart�), and Ransom Watkins (“Watkins�)
(collectively, “Plaintiffs�) for felony murder of a 14-year-old boy named DeWitt Duckett in
1983. (ECF No. 1.) On November 25, 2019, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City granted the
Plaintiffs... More...    $0 (02-27-2022 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories.

This case arises out of the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of Plaintiffs Alfred
Chestnut (“Chestnut�), Andrew Stewart, Jr. (“Stewart�), and Ransom Watkins (“Watkins�)
(collectively, “Plaintiffsâ€�) for felony murder of a 14-year-ol... More...    $48000000 (04-28-2021 - MD)

Baltimore, Maryland civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on an employment discrimination theory.


In this employment discrimination case, plaintiff Madeline Morey filed suit against defendants "Carroll County Government" and the "Carroll County Board of Commissioners" (collectively, "Carroll County" or the "County"). ECF 1.1 In a First Amended Complaint (ECF 1... More...    $0 (05-03-2018 - MD)

MEYER, District Judge.

On September 21, 1987, Quality Inns International, Inc. announced a new chain of economy hotels to be marketed under the name "McSleep Inn." The response of McDonald's Corporation was immediate. It demanded by letter sent three days later that Quality International not use the name "McSleep" because it infringed on McDonald's family of marks that are characterized b... More...    $0 (09-16-1988 - 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)

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)

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)

The State, after the Court of Special Appeals reversed the conviction of Jacob
Bircher, Respondent, asks us to explore the realm of supplemental jury instructions in its
Petition for Certiorari, which we granted, in which the following question was posed:
Did the Court of Special Appeals err in finding an abuse of discretion in the trial court’s decision to provide a supplemental i... More...    $0 (03-08-2016 - MD)

The charges in this case stemmed from the death of the appellant’s two month old son. The infant had been rushed to a local emergency room by paramedics after his parents called 911 early on the morning of 10 January 2011. When the infant arrived at the emergency room, he was not breathing, had no pulse, and was not responsive. A pediatrician was eventually able to restore the infant’s heartbea... More...    $0 (01-19-2016 - MD)

The appellee’s case made its way to this court by way of an unusual journey. The appellee originally had his case dismissed by a general court-martial convening authority (GCMCA) following an Article 32, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 832, investigation. Shortly after dismissal, the acting Secretary of the Air Force transferred the appellee’s case to a different convening authority who ultimately referred th... More...    $0 (01-19-2016 - MD)

In May 2009, Appellant married Ms. AVC, a single mother of two boys. The older of the boys, JEV, was born in September 2005 and the younger, JAV, was born in January 2008. In November 2009, Ms. AVC, the two boys, and Appellant moved into quarters at the base where he was assigned. In December 2011—while Appellant was deployed overseas—JEV and JAV began to fight in their on-base housing. JEV co... More...    $0 (01-09-2016 - MD)

Was Petitioner Deandre Ricardo Williams’s statement that “I don’t want to say nothing. I don’t know” an ambiguous or clear invocation of his right to remain silent under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966)? Whether Williams’s confession, given after waiving his Miranda rights, was voluntary or the product of inducement, poses another conundrum. Specifically, t... More...    $0 (12-20-2015 - MD)

Appellant became addicted to oxycodone and cocaine. To pay for the drugs, he sold and pawned various items of military property during March and April 2013, including night vision goggles, a gas mask, a Kevlar helmet, portions of flak jackets, and body armor plates. When Security Forces began investigating the missing items, Appellant initially (and falsely) told them he had not seen another Air... More...    $0 (11-28-2015 - MD)

In 1998, Maryland and the 51 other Settling States entered the MSA, thus settling
their claims for “wrongful marketing and advertising of cigarettes, as well as damages
based upon the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses,” against three major cigarette
manufacturers – Philip Morris USA, Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and Lorillard
apprproval of the side agreement, and ... More...    $0 (10-25-2015 - MD)

James Owens brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office, an assistant State’s Attorney, the Baltimore City Police Department, and several Baltimore City police officers. In his complaint, Owens alleges that the defendants violated his constitutional rights by intentionally withholding exculpatory evidence during his 1988 trial for the rape... More...    $0 (09-24-2014 - MD)

This case arises out of one of the largest residential arsons in Maryland history. See Michael E. Ruane & Joshua Partlow, No Motive Found in Charles Arsons; Eco-Terrorism, Racism Considered, Wash. Post, Dec. 8, 2004, at B1. Appellants (Homebuyers) contracted to purchase homes that were later damaged or destroyed due to the arsons. Following the arsons, the Homebuyers brought suit against a company... More...    $0 (04-15-2014 - 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)

Mary Johnson (“Mrs. Johnsonâ€�) brought this suit against the United States seeking a refund of payments on a federal withholding tax penalty assessed against her under 26 U.S.C. § 6672.1 The Government counterclaimed against both Mrs. Johnson and her husband, Ford Johnson (“Mr. Johnsonâ€�), individually, to reduce to judgment the remaining balance of the trust fund recovery penalties assesse... More...    $0 (11-05-2013 - MD)

Thirty years ago, in Harrison v. Montgomery County Bd. of Educ., 295 Md. 442, 444, 456 A.2d 894 (1983), this Court issued a writ of certiorari to decide “whether the common law doctrine of contributory negligence should be judicially abrogated in Maryland and the doctrine of comparative negligence adopted in its place as the rule governing trial of negligence actions in this State.â€� In a compr... More...    $0 (07-09-2013 - MD)

Appellants Thomas and Danielle Francis ("the Francises" or "Appellants") appeal an order of the district court granting summary judgment to Appellee Allstate Insurance Company ("Allstate"). In March 2011, Appellants brought this action in Maryland state court seeking a declaration as to Allstate’s duty under a renters insurance policy to defend and indemnify the Francises in a tort suit brought ... More...    $0 (03-07-2013 - 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)

Marjorie Gayle Hendrix, the appellant, was injured in an automobile accident caused by Charles Robert Burns, one of the appellees. In the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Mrs. Hendrix sued Mr. Burns and Candice Marie Burns, his wife, the other appellee, alleging battery and negligence against Mr. Burns and negligent entrustment against Mrs. Burns.

Mrs. Hendrix prayed a jury trial. Before... More...    $0 (03-29-2012 - MD)

Helen C. Griggs and her late husband, Victor G. Griggs, refinanced the mortgage on their home with Beneficial Mortgage Company of Maryland. One of the mortgage instruments the Griggses executed, when they met with representatives of Beneficial Mortgage to obtain the refinancing, contained an arbitration rider, providing that disputes “arising from or relatingâ€� to their agreement with Beneficia... More...    $0 (05-02-2012 - 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 appeal presents the question of whether an injury suffered by appellant at the hands of a third party was “directed against [him] in the course ofâ€� his employment. John Doe, appellant, appeals from the decision of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City that reversed an award of benefits made by the Workers’ Compensation Commission. In this workers’ compensation case, appellant raises tw... More...    $0 (10-03-2011 - MD)

This case arises out of a claim filed by appellant, James E. Troxel, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in which he sought damages for injuries he allegedly received on the dance floor of a nightclub called Iguana Cantina located near the Inner Harbor in Baltimore City. Troxel sued the following defendants: (1) Iguana Cantina, LLC, the entity that operated the club, (2) Timothy S. Bennett, th... More...    $0 (10-03-2011 - MD)

In the case at bar, this Court granted both a petition and cross-petition for a writ of certiorari to address two issues of public importance: (1) the extent to which the First Amendment’s “ministerial exceptionâ€� is applicable to a sixteen count civil action asserted against a church by a former employee who claims that she was the victim of sexual harassment and employment discrimination; a... More...    $0 (09-21-2011 - MD)

We consider in this case whether the Appellants have alleged viable claims under the Torture Victim Protection Act ("TVPA"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, note, or the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350. The Appellants filed a class action complaint under these statutes, alleging that Defendant Alcolac, Inc., a chemical manufacturer, sold thiodiglycol ("TDG") to Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime, wh... More...    $0 (09-19-2011 - MD)

James N. Hutcherson, Jr., and Sharon T. Hutcherson appeal the district court’s orders granting summary judgment in favor of Officer Chae Lim on their state law tort claims and denying reconsideration. On appeal, the Hutchersons argue that the district court should have declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over their state law claims and that the court erred in granting summary judgment... More...    $0 (08-30-2011 - MD)

In this case, we must revisit contracts with “non-waiverâ€� clauses and determine whether and how a party to such a contract can waive its requirements and conditions. Respondent, the owner of a large, mixed-use development near Annapolis, Maryland, agreed to sell a portion of the property to Petitioner, a developer, for the construction of a residential tower. The contract required certain cond... More...    $0 (07-20-2011 - MD)

Appellant Lynette Harris (“Harrisâ€�) challenges the district court’s grant of summary judgment on her claims against her employer, Appellee Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (collectively, the “Cityâ€�), for hostile work environment and failure to promote under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq.; deprivation of constitutional equal protection under 42 ... More...    $0 (05-06-2011 - MD)

Appellants, The George Wasserman and Janice Wasserman Goldsten Family Limited Liability Company (“WGFâ€�) and Anthony Tanzi, as Trustee of the Lisa W. Gill Trust (“Gill Trustâ€�), are partners in five real estate investment general partnerships and members in two real estate investment LLCs (collectively, the “investment vehiclesâ€�). Appellees are Jack Kay (“Mr. Kayâ€�), the managing memb... More...    $0 (02-09-2011 - MD)