Ponzi Feeder Fund
A class claims in court that Acrebay Capital Management, Credit Portfolio Lending II and their directors defrauded investors through a feeder fund for a $345 million Ponzi scam.
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Partisan Gerrymandering Cases Face New High Court Reckoning
After sweeping away the opportunity last term to tackle partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court announced Friday it would hear new cases this spring out of Maryland and North Carolina.
Read moreFederal Judge Stops Enforcement of Maryland Election Law
A federal judge delivered a devastating blow to a Maryland law aimed at preventing foreign interference in state elections, enjoining elections officials from enforcing it at all while a challenge by a group of newspapers plays out in court.
Read moreWatchdog Can Run Transit Ads Decrying Kitten Tests
Ads protesting experimental testing on kittens by the Agriculture Department will soon appear on buses and trains in Maryland thanks to a settlement between a taxpayer watchdog group and the state, which initially rejected the group’s ad campaign this fall.
Read moreNine Blue States Join Fight Against Seismic Oil Testing
Attorneys general from nine states sought Thursday to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by environmentalists who say the Trump administration’s plans to conduct seismic testing for oil exploration in the Atlantic Ocean will cause irreversible harm to marine life.
Read moreFeds Ask to Halt State AG Emoluments Case
The Justice Department asked the Fourth Circuit on Monday to stay a lawsuit filed by two attorneys general accusing President Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption clauses of the U.S. Constitution through his businesses.
Read moreAttorneys General Drop Subpoenas on Trump Organization, Fed Agencies
Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and Maryland dropped hundreds of pages of subpoenas Tuesday evening demanding financial records tied to the Trump Organization, according to the Maryland attorney general’s office.
Read moreJustice Lawyers Try, Again, to Stop Trump’s Records Release
In a late Friday afternoon filing, Justice Department’s lawyers appeared to be challenging a Maryland federal judge’s decision to allow a case accusing President Donald Trump of violating the U.S. Constitution to move forward to legal discovery.
Read moreAttorneys Seeks New Trial for ‘Serial’ Subject Adnan Syed
Attorneys for Adnan Syed, who is currently serving life in prison for the 1999 murder of his high school girlfriend, told Maryland’s highest court Thursday, Syed deserves a new trial because ineffective counsel led to the omission of eyewitness testimony that could have vindicated him.
Read moreDiscriminatory Lending
The Maryland counties of Montgomery and Prince George claim in a federal complaint that Bank of America, Countrywide Financial Corp., Merrill Lynch Mortgage Capital and others of discriminated against blacks in mortgage lending. They also brought a separate, similar complaint against Wells Fargo Bank.
Read moreFederal Court Tosses Challenge to Maryland Ban on Bump Stocks
A federal judge has tossed a class action by a gun rights advocacy group that sought to overturn Maryland’s ban on the sale and possession of bump stocks.
Read moreMaryland Appeals Gerrymandering Case to Supreme Court
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that voided the state’s congressional voting map and ordered officials to redraw the lines prior to the 2020 election.
Read moreMaryland Challenges Legitimacy of Acting AG Appointment
President Donald Trump sidestepped the Constitution and the Justice Department’s own succession plan by appointing of Matthew Whitaker as the new U.S. acting attorney general, the state of Maryland says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Read moreMaryland Ordered to Draw New Congressional District Map for 2020
Maryland officials must draw up a new congressional district map that isn’t tainted by partisan gerrymandering, a three-judge panel has ruled.
Read moreBoating Groups Fight Trump Impasse on Potomac
Kayakers and canoe enthusiasts brought a federal complaint Thursday to protest security measures that close off a stretch of the Potomac River whenever President Donald Trump is golfing nearby.
Read moreNewspapers Sue Over Electioneering Disclosure Law
The Washington Post and seven other newspapers sued Maryland Friday over the state’s implementation of a law requiring greater disclosure about the buyers of online political ads.
Read moreFour Blue States Take on Tax-Deduction Cap
A coalition of East Coast states led by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions to shoulder corporate tax cuts under the Trump administration’s new code.
Read moreDispatches From Home: The Annapolis Shooting
A little more than a month ago, the Navy Blue Angels streaked over Spa Creek in Annapolis to celebrate another commissioning week for the U.S. Naval Academy. This week, bullets smashed through the glass doors of the Capital Gazette’s newsroom, and a lone gunman killed five and gravely injured many more.
Read moreMaryland Suspect Denied Bail on Newspaper Murders
A judge denied bail Friday to the 38-year-old Maryland man charged with murdering five the afternoon before at the Annapolis newsroom of the The Capital Gazette.
Read moreFive People Dead in Maryland Newspaper Office Shooting
Five people were killed and several others were gravely injured Thursday in a shooting at the offices of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. The alleged shooter has been taken into custody, police said.
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