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Maryland Court Blocks Handgun License Restrictions, Labels Them Unconstitutional

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appeals court on Tuesday declared that Maryland’s licensing requirements for people seeking to buy handguns were unconstitutional, Nate Raymond reports for Reuters. The NRA backed the lawsuit that challenged the law and covered the legal costs of the litigation.

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Court rules for Maryland prison official on procedural issue

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a Maryland prison official another chance to defend himself against a federal civil rights claim. Younger rested on procedural issues, but it was an important one for the litigants involved – and, as Justice Amy Coney Barrett observed in announcing it, for law professors.

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Circuit Court Orders Maryland to Continue Paying Unemployment Benefits

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's office has since said that it will stop trying to end unemployment benefits for eligible residents.

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Justices to hear procedural question in Maryland prison-assault case

SCOTUSBlog

Share Kevin Younger was detained before trial at a state prison in Baltimore, Maryland. In the district court, Dupree argued that Younger’s suit could not go forward because he had not pursued all remedies, including internal grievance remedies at the prison, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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In Maryland prison-assault case, a request to clarify an important procedural question

SCOTUSBlog

Guards at the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic & Classification Center outside Baltimore face a history of internal investigations regarding claims of assaulting inmates. The post In Maryland prison-assault case, a request to clarify an important procedural question appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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8 Classes Of Marriott Guests Certified In Data Breach MDL

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A Maryland federal judge certified eight classes of Marriott International Inc. guests in multidistrict litigation over a major data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 100 million guests at its Starwood-branded hotels, although some other classes were denied certification.