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The North Carolina Court of Appeals has again dismissed an appeal because the arguments in an appellant’s brief didn’t match the assignments of error – and once again a concurring judge has offered a remedy to fix that procedural trap. ...

A child sexual abuse victim who was mistakenly not notified of a hearing to reconsider her abuser’s sentence, does not have standing to appeal a judge’s decision to vacate the man’s conviction and give him probation before judgment, the Maryland ...

Before you search for a Master of Business Administration program, answer this question: What do you hope to get out of it? Are you, for instance, looking to gain general business knowledge that you can apply to running your small ...

A candidate for secretary of state in Arizona has filed a special action petition with the state Supreme Court, alleging that Secretary of State Jan Brewer “has blatantly and severely ignored the clear language of Senate Bill 1557.” The bill, ...

Marylanders will not get an opportunity to weigh in this November on whether the state should permit early voting, per an order issued July 25 by the Court of Appeals. Attorneys for Thomas Roskelly, leader of the anti-early voting group ...

A group of property owners who brought a claim against a water-heater company could not obtain class certification without including some showing of damages, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has found. The plaintiff consumers alleged that the defendant company attempted ...

Hollywood producer James G. Robinson claims officers representing the Maryland Port Administration stormed his company’s waterfront offices, seeking to evict him. He has filed a federal lawsuit to prevent the state from trying to do it again. Premier Automotive Services ...

The admission at trial of a murder victim’s prior statements, which were not testimonial in nature, did not violate a defendant’s constitutional right to confront his accuser, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has decided. The defendant argued that the principles ...

Opening arguments are expected to begin Monday afternoon at the Jackson County Courthouse in a trial over the alleged wrongful death of a Windsor woman. According to plaintiff’s attorney Lon Walters, Dr. Timothy Lee Blackburn failed to diagnosis and treat ...

For the past 17 years Baltimore’s Harbor Hospital has failed to compensate its security employees for an extra half-hour they were required to work each day, according to eight current and former members of the security staff who have filed ...

A police officer’s mistake of law cannot support probable cause to conduct a stop, the 7th Circuit held on July 17. In 2004, two Illinois police officers received an anonymous tip that a black male driving a maroon Buick possessed ...