The Constitution entrusts the President and Congress, not the courts, with the power to resolve political questions. See Japan Whaling Ass’n v. Am. Cetacean Soc’y, 478 U.S. 221, 230 (1986); Taylor v. Kellogg, Brown & Root Servs., Inc., 658 F.3d 402, 408–409 (4th Cir. 2011). The issue before us is whether a suit brought by United States military personnel, civilian contractors, and surviving family... More...    $0 (06-24-2018 - MD)

On October 2, 2015, appellant, a science teacher at a Montgomery County high
school, administered a makeup exam to N.S., one of his students.1 As part of the
accommodations for her learning disability, N.S. took a written examination and then had
the questions administered orally.
After completing the written examination, N.S. went to the front of the classroom,
where a... More...    $0 (03-31-2018 - MD)

Baltimore, MD - United States District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Glen Kyle Wells, a/k/a Lou, and Kyle, age 31, of Baltimore to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin relating to a drug trafficking organization in North Baltimore.

The sentence was announced by Acting United Sta... More...    $0 (02-23-2018 - 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)

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)

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 Government began investigating Appellant after a broader inspection of government computers revealed sexually explicit materials on his government account. The inspection of Appellant’s computer account disclosed hundreds of sexually explicit images and several videos, all of which were prohibited by regulation from being stored on an Air Force computer system. A few of the depictions showed... More...    $0 (11-16-2015 - 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)

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)

This case involves the interpretation of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, Sections 9.5-101 to 9.5-318 of the Family Law Article, Maryland Code (1984, 2006 Repl. Vol.).1 Peter Paul Toland, Jr.,2 Appellant, challenges the Circuit Court for Montgomery County’s determination that a Japanese decree providing guardianship of his minor child to the child’s grandmother, Akik... More...    $0 (05-22-2012 - MD)

In this case, we have been asked to sit in judgment once again in the case of McQuitty v. Spangler, about which we previously opined, 410 Md. 1, 976 A.2d 1020 (2009) (hereinafter McQuitty I). In a series of post-trial motions following McQuitty I, Appellant, Dr. Donald Spangler, moved to reduce the verdict in favor of the Appellees, Dylan McQuitty and his parents Peggy and Gary McQuitty. After the... More...    $0 (01-27-2012 - MD)

Six individuals and the Magothy River Association, Inc. (collectively, “Associationâ€� or “Appelleesâ€�) brought suit against the recent purchasers of Dobbins Island, David and Diana Clickner (“Clicknersâ€� or “Appellantsâ€�), seeking to establish a public right to use a beach located alongside the island’s northern crescent area. Following a bench trial on the merits, the trial judge de... More...    $0 (01-20-2012 - MD)

Appellants Long Green Valley (“LGVAâ€�) and John and Susan Yoder (“the Yodersâ€�) appeal the issuance of a declaratory judgment by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County in favor of appellees: Bellevale Farms, Inc., Bellevale Farms Limited Partnership, Prigel Family Creamery, Inc., and Robert E. and Carol A. Prigel (collectively, “Bellevaleâ€�), and the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservatio... More...    $0 (02-14-2012 - 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)

On August 12, 2008, officials at the Maryland Correctional Training Center conducted a drug interdiction operation using a portable ion scanning machine capable of detecting minute amounts of controlled substances. Upon entering the building, several employees and independent contractors of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services alerted for the presence of drugs and wer... More...    $0 (07-21-2011 - MD)

In this appeal, we are asked to determine the appropriate State constitutional standard for a claim that police used excessive force on a citizen in custody following a valid arrest.

The unfortunate circumstances described below led Eyrania Smith, appellant, to file suit in January 2008 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County against Michael Bortner, appellee, an officer of the Baltimore ... More...    $0 (07-07-2010 - MD)

This is a medical malpractice action filed by appellants, Polly and Stuart Keyes, against appellee, Sheldon Lerman, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. After a full trial, the jury concluded that Dr. Lerman was not negligent and returned a verdict in his favor. In this appeal, appellants complain that the unfavorable verdict resulted from the refusal of the court (1) to give a requested spo... More...    $0 (11-30--0001 - MD)

In this appeal, we evaluate the legal sufficiency of a complaint, applying the standard articulated in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. 1937 (2009) — i.e., whether the complaint on its face states plausible claims upon which relief can be granted. Following highly public exchanges between Baltimore City Mayor Martin O’Malley and Baltimore C... More...    $0 (12-04-2009 - MD)

In June 2006, Albert Snyder instituted this diversity action in the District of Maryland against Westboro Baptist Church, Incorporated (the "Church"), and several of its members (collectively, the "Defendants"). Snyder’s lawsuit is predicated on two related events: a protest the Defendants conducted in Maryland near the funeral of Snyder’s son Matthew (an enlisted Marine who tragically died in... More...    $0 (10-03-2009 - MD)

In June 2006, Albert Snyder instituted this diversity action in the District of Maryland against Westboro Baptist Church, Incorporated (the "Church"), and several of its members (collectively, the "Defendants"). Snyder’s lawsuit is predicated on two related events: a protest the Defendants conducted in Maryland near the funeral of Snyder’s son Matthew (an enlisted Marine who tragically died in... More...    $0 (09-25-2009 - MD)

In this case we explore the boundaries of the doctrine of informed consent in the context of a healthcare provider’s treatment of a patient. Petitioner, Peggy McQuitty, mother of Dylan McQuitty, who was born on May 8, 1995 with severe cerebral palsy, sued Dr. Donald Spangler in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. In addition to alleging medical malpractice, Ms. McQuitty alleged that he breac... More...    $0 (07-24-2009 - MD)

Appellant DIRECTV, Inc. ("DIRECTV"), a satellite television service provider, commenced this action in the Western District of North Carolina against appellee John Rawlins. DIRECTV alleged that Rawlins utilized illegal devices to access DIRECTV television programming beyond the level of his paid subscription in violation of, as relevant here, the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 (the ... More...    $0 (04-24-2008 - MD)

The issue in this case is whether a cause of action for intentional interference with custody and visitation rights is sustainable by a father, Michael Shannon, against his former wife, Nermeen Khalifa Shannon, and her mother, Afaf Nassar Khalifa ("Appellants"), both of whom fled to Egypt with the couple's two minor children, who remain there. Appellants moved to dismiss the father's complaint... More...    $3017500 (04-11-2008 - MD)

On a motion for summary judgment filed in this copyright infringement action, the district court held that the defendants' copying of a copyrighted manuscript for introduction into evidence in a state-court child-custody proceeding constituted a "fair use" of the manuscript under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 107, when the substance of the manuscript was relevant to the issues in the child-c... More...    $0 (01-24-2003 - MD)

At 6:00 a.m. on November 28, just before daybreak on the opening day of the 1998 deer hunting season, Charles Montgomery waited quietly in the underbrush, near the northern boundary of the Montgomery family farm in Ijamsville. It was to be Charles's first deer hunt. He and his adult son Brian, an experienced hunter, had arrived in darkness to avoid disturbing deer that might come into their ... More...    $0 (11-04-2002 - MD)

Frances Darcangelo filed this case in Maryland state court against Verizon Communications, Inc., her employer, and CORE, Inc., the administrator of a disability benefits plan that Verizon sponsors for its employees. Darcangelo's complaint alleges violations of Maryland's medical record confidentiality statute, Md. Code Ann., Health- General SS 4-302 and 4-307, and the state's unfair and decep... More...    $0 (05-29-2002 - MD)

This case involves claims of defamation and invasion of privacy arising out of two letters written by appellee Dr. Gary L. Smith on behalf of appellee The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (“APL”)1 as part of a settlement agreement in a federal lawsuit filed by Patricia Herchenroeder. Sodergren and APL were both defendants in Herchenroeder’s lawsuit, which ... More...    $0 (06-01-2001 - MD)

Unauthorized wiretapping, invasion of privacy and defamation by former caretaker of Plantiff's estate.... More...    $5150000 (04-30-1997 - MD)