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Civil litigation — Default judgment — Motion to revise G&S Association Services, LLC (“G&S”) and Ghilda L. Fries, appellants, appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County denying their motion to revise a default judgment. They contend that the default judgment must be vacated because they were denied the right to ...

Torts — Bridge defect — Governmental immunity Mark Heim, the appellant, crashed his bicycle while riding on the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail (“the Trail”). He sued Anne Arundel County, the appellee, for an alleged defect at the foot of one of the Trail’s bridges. The trial court granted Anne Arundel County summary judgment. Read the ...

Torts — Medical malpractice — Sufficiency of evidence Appellants, Rebecca Morris and Charles Fitzpatrick are the parents of appellant, Peter Fitzpatrick. In 2018, appellants filed a medical malpractice claim in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County against appellees, University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, LLC, and co-defendants, Capital Women’s Care, LLC and Michael Giudice, ...

Civil litigation — Dismissal — Amended complaint In 2019, Valentino Mofor, appellant, filed a complaint against Lyft, Inc., appellee, in the District Court of Baltimore County, raising claims of breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, unfair and deceptive trade practices, constructive fraud, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. These claims ...

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Prior convictions Following a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Lamont Anthony Vaughn, appellant, was convicted of home invasion, robbery, second-degree assault, first-degree burglary, third-degree burglary, theft of goods valued between $100 and $1,500, conspiracy to commit home invasion, and conspiracy to commit ...

Real property — Foreclosure — Circuit court jurisdiction In 2019, appellees, acting as substitute trustees, filed an Order to Docket Foreclosure in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, seeking to foreclose on real property owned by Melissa Washington, appellant. Ms. Washington subsequently filed a “Petition to Dismiss/Abate for Lack of Subject Matter (In Personam) Jurisdiction” ...

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Alleged assailant’s mask Following a two-day trial in the Circuit Court for Garrett County, a jury convicted appellant James Ptomey of attempted first-degree murder and violation of a protective order. The court sentenced appellant to twenty-five years’ imprisonment for attempted first-degree murder, and thirty days concurrent for ...

Criminal procedure — Jury instruction — Cross-racial identification A jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City convicted Robert McBride of two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon. The Court sentenced him to a term of ten years’ imprisonment for one of the robbery convictions and a concurrent term of ten years’ imprisonment for ...

Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — Merger of murder and use of handgun Following a 2013 trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, a jury found Jason Hamel, appellant, guilty of second-degree murder, use of handgun in the commission of a felony or crime of violence, and wearing, transporting, and carrying a handgun. The ...

UBS Wealth Management USA announced that Michele Burch-Lippincott, a financial adviser in the firm’s Hunt Valley office, was named to the Forbes/SHOOK Research Top Women Wealth Advisors list for 2021. Burch-Lippincott has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, and has been with UBS for more than 20 years. She has ...

Preservation Maryland, Maryland’s oldest, largest and most effective preservation organization dedicated to preserving Maryland’s historic buildings, neighborhoods, landscapes, and archaeological sites through outreach, funding, and advocacy, announced President and CEO Nicholas Redding has been elected to serve as board chair of The National Preservation Partners Network. The National Preservation Partners Network, an organization comprised of nearly 100 national, statewide, local and regional preservation ...

When the Bloomberg American Health Initiative was launched in 2018, no one could have predicted a global pandemic. But leaders at the initiative discovered that as the pandemic spread, its impact was greatest in many of the very issues the program was designed to address. The core areas for the initiative are addiction and overdose, ...

Marylanders are coming back to the office. The summer will bring phased returns for employees of companies like T. Rowe Price, and the fall semester will see many schools return to full in-person classes. Many municipal offices have already made the shift. But returning to the pre-pandemic office work isn’t as straight forward as it sounds. Just as confusion ...

Tydings announced that Chambers and Partners has again ranked the firm and two of its partners, Alan M. Grochal and Richard L. Costella, for their work in bankruptcy and restructuring in its 2021 edition of Chambers USA. Chambers’ editors comment that Tydings is known as a “respected team with an extensive history acting for both ...

Following a nationwide search conducted by Denver-based EFL Associates, the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System (MSRPS) announced that Martin Noven, of Illinois, has been selected as the system’s new executive director, effective July 1. Noven takes over the reins from R. Dean Kenderdine, who is retiring June 30 after ...

Gov. Larry Hogan appointed Baltimore resident Allison Banks to the Maryland Legal Services Corporation’s nine-member board of directors. MLSC is the state’s largest funder of civil legal aid. Banks is client relationship director with Tyson’s Corner, Virginia-based NeoSystems Inc., a cloud hosting provider in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia that supports government contractors operating in the United ...

Young Audiences/Arts For Learning, the Baltimore-based nonprofit that transforms student learning across Maryland through arts integration, named Hector Garcia as its new chief operating officer, Michael Brush was promoted to director of Arts & Learning Academies, Kendra Banks was  named chief of Arts & Learning Academies and promoted Kurtis Donnelly to chief of innovation and ...

Anna Philyaw was named assistant director of Monarch Preschool College Park, a new preschool affiliated with The Children’s Guild Alliance opening in College Park. Philyaw will assume the role of acting director when the school opens, while Director Kristin Taylor takes maternity leave. Before joining the staff of Monarch Preschool College Park, Philyaw was the ...

Alexa Bertinelli was promoted to managing attorney at Civil Justice Inc. Bertinelli joined Civil Justice in 2018 where she has overseen the Economic Justice Program and leads Civil Justice’s in-house consumer litigation. She handles both individual and class cases that challenge a variety of abusive business practices, including wrongful evictions and auto-fraud. As managing attorney, ...