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The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday that aims to boost U.S. semiconductor production and the development of artificial intelligence and other technology in the face of growing international competition, most notably from China.

David J. Shuster Managing Principal Kramon & Graham P.A. As Gov. Larry Hogan issued a stay-at-home order to help stem the spread of COVID-19, David J. Shuster, managing principal at Kramon & Graham P.A. in Baltimore, formed a work group to help Maryland law firms work through the transition to remote work. Th e initiative ...

Mary Roby Sanders Attorney Turnbull, Nicholson & Sanders P.A. Mary Roby Sanders is a family and juvenile lawyer based in Towson. Th roughout her career, Sanders has hosted and organized more than 100 family law seminars and continued legal education programs. She has also acted as a direct mentor for six attorneys. Sanders said her ...

Melissa Lambert County Attorney for Harford County Harford County Government Melissa Lambert has served as an attorney in the public sector for more than 30 years, including more than 18 years with the state’s attorney’s office. Th roughout her tenure, Lambert has been recognized for her work on family violence, including her eff orts to ...

A court filing shows Baltimore officials and the ACLU of Maryland have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over a six-day neighborhood lockdown in the wake of the 2017 shooting death of a detective.

A suspected Baltimore gang leader died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a standoff with law enforcement Tuesday afternoon in an Atlanta suburb, authorities said.

The U.S. economy is sparking confusion and whiplash almost as fast as it’s adding jobs.

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 ...