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An agreement between a brother and a sister to purchase a home was a land installment contract – meaning that under Maryland law, the brother had a right to cancel the deal and receive a refund of the payments he ...

The landlord of a Prince George’s County, Md., law firm was not entitled to summary judgment awarding him possession of leased office space and unpaid rent because factual disputes remained about the state of the property and the firm’s right ...

A Maryland Tax Court judge has upheld a controversial cell phone tax imposed by Baltimore and Montgomery County, Md., allowing the two jurisdictions to continue collecting millions from wireless carriers. In February 2005, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless ...

Wisconsin is gearing up to sue a defunct construction company after it missed a May 20 deadline to pay ex-employees $620,225. The money represents unpaid health-care payments, balances on health-care savings accounts, overtime and penalties for not giving employees a ...

The president of the national firm that operated the recent Taxpayer Bill of Rights petition signature drive in Oklahoma said Wednesday that the public was getting an incorrect view of petition circulators from signature challenge hearings being conducted before an ...

Deliberating for four hours without a lunch break, a St. Louis County jury returned a unanimous verdict to a laser eye surgery patient who sued his eye surgeon, claiming the procedure left him with permanent double vision. The jury awarded ...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld state law regarding punitive damages awards while reversing a district court’s award for $1.75 million in punitive damages – an amount well more than 100 times the amount of actual damages incurred in ...

Nine of the 10 employees of Baltimore City Circuit Court’s Jury Division have filed grievances and requested a transfer, according to the union representing them. The two grievances, signed by the nine employees against Jury Commissioner Nancy M. Dennis and ...

Steve Gorny runs in the Mercedes Marathon on Feb. 12 in Birmingham, Ala. It was the second run in his campaign to complete 12 marathons in 12 months to raise $12,000 for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. contributed photo Steve ...

An insurance company must cover the Missouri Public Entity Risk Management Fund for a settlement with a woman who was sexually harassed by her employer, the Andrew County prosecuting attorney, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Michael ...

A state employee who was sent to work at a remote site should be compensated for travel time beyond her normal commute, not for the entire trip, the state’s intermediate appellate court has held. An administrative law judge had found ...