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BALTIMORE - Seven women at a West Baltimore public housing complex filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that maintenance workers demanded sexual favors in return for repairing a gas leak, exterminating roaches and making other improvements. In the lawsuit, the women…
BALTIMORE - Former Morgan State University student charged with attempted murder for stabbing another student in a campus fight accepted a guilty plea to a lesser charge and received probation before judgment. Carlos Mars, 20, of District Heights, was facing…
BALTIMORE — A handyman and supervisor for the Baltimore City Housing Authority routinely and systematically withheld necessary repairs from women who refused to have sex with them, creating a hostile environment and culture of fear in public housing complexes in…
BALTIMORE - The Morgan State University student charged with critically wounding another student during a fight could be released on bail, after his attorney argued that he has a "significant" self-defense claim. Baltimore District Judge Nathan Braverman set a $500,000…
Fraud schemes, including check counterfeiting losses, cost U.S. companies and financial institutions more than $10 billion annually. The number of fraudulent checks presented increased 28 percent last year, according to an American Bankers Association fraud survey. Often the perpetrators escape…
The following article is meant to provide some insight as to the use of experts in nursing home cases in both the Maryland State and Federal court systems. However, before expounding upon the use of experts in these two legal…
The litigation blogs have all been abuzz as the news has spread, and cases have been dismissed in the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Ashcroft v Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. 1937 (2009). In this landmark case the…
Introduction As many of us who handle medical malpractice and personal injury litigation know, there is an 800-pound gorilla that figuratively sits beside us at every mediation, settlement discussion, and trial. That unsightly, overwhelming, impossible to ignore beast is Medicare. …
BALTIMORE - City prosecutors dropped drug charges yesterday against the father of the Baltimore 4-year-old who became famous last month when she was mistakenly identified as an abandoned child from New York. Robert Andrew Persons was arrested May 7 on…
BALTIMORE - The mother and father of Akasha Persons, the 3-year-old who was abandoned this month, were face-to-face yesterday for the first time in two years at a preliminary custody hearing in Baltimore's Juvenile Justice Center. Patricia Harper and Robert…