After a federal judge found a roadside zoo in Maryland violated the Endangered Species Act by not giving adequate care to a tiger that is now dead, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the ruling should send a clear message to other wildlife facilities that may be mistreating animals.
Read moreFinding that attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia lack standing, the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating clauses in the Constitution that bar him from receiving gifts from foreign or state governments while in office without congressional consent.
Read moreA week after the Supreme Court rebuked the government’s contrived rationale for changing the 2020 census to include a citizenship question, Justice Department attorneys told a federal judge Friday they will continue their fight.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its plans Friday to designate a Maryland ship “graveyard” on the Potomac River as a national marine sanctuary, the first such designation in the state and on the Chesapeake Bay.
Read moreA Maryland appeals court found the Maryland Board of Physicians is entitled to immunity in a consolidated lawsuit from a doctor who advocated against vaccinations, saying they caused autism.
Read moreThe Supreme Court delivered a defeat to election-reform advocates for the second year in a row Thursday, backing gerrymandered district maps that it called “highly partisan, by any measure.”
Read moreA judge on Tuesday ordered that the trial for a man charged with killing five people at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland to be held in two parts and granted a request for more time to conduct a mental health review by the state health department.
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The Trump administration’s push to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census may have a “discriminatory purpose,” a federal judge in Maryland found Monday after reviewing new evidence.
Read moreJournalists and court-transparency activists filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Maryland law that prohibits the rebroadcast of audio recordings of criminal proceedings.
Read moreFBI and IRS agents conducted sweeping raids Thursday morning on Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, searching both of the Democrat’s homes as well as her offices at city hall, the offices of a nonprofit with which she is associated and the office of her personal lawyer.
Read moreA jury convicted a wealthy stock trader of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter Wednesday in the fiery death of a man who was helping him secretly dig tunnels for an underground nuclear bunker beneath his Maryland home.
Read moreLess than three weeks before the Supreme Court weighs the issue, a federal judge in Maryland on Friday became the third to block the Trump administration’s decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
Read moreConsidering the issue for the second time in as many years, the Supreme Court struggled Tuesday to pin down when, whether and how to tackle gerrymandering driven by political, rather than racial, bias.
Read moreA federal judge granted summary judgment to Blue Water Baltimore over its EPA petition that sought a determination as to whether “stormwater discharges from privately owned commercial, industrial, and institutional sites are contributing to violations of water quality standards in the Back River watershed.”
Read moreLawyers for President Donald Trump asked a sympathetic Fourth Circuit panel Tuesday to reject a lawsuit accusing him of violating the Constitution’s emoluments clauses, which ban the president from receiving gifts from foreign or state governments while in office without congressional consent.
Read moreOf the many legal challenges President Donald Trump is facing, few have forced legal experts and historians to dig deep quite like claims that his private business dealings with foreign governments violate the Constitution.
Read moreMaryland’s highest court denied a new trial Friday for a man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.”
Read moreA federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted the Coast Guard lieutenant prosecutors say was plotting an attack on Democratic politicians and members of the media, adding to the drug and gun charges he already faced.
Read moreThe real estate firm run by White House adviser Jared Kushner’s family has pulled off its biggest deal in more than a decade.
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