Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) articles from July 2009

Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) archives from July 2009

Mother of Prince george's County teen seeks $153M for her son's jail killing.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Brendan Kearney The mother of the Prince George's County teen who was strangled while in solitary confinement on suspicion of killing a police officer has filed a $153.6 million lawsuit against the county and three correctional...

Daily Record News Legal Briefs: July 1, 2009.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Pharmacist faces drug charges U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein announced Tuesday the federal indictment of pharmacist Ketankumar Arvind Patel, 47, of Eldersburg, and Deepa Inc., d/b/a The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy...

The Daily Record Business News Briefs: July 1, 2009.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports T. Rowe's new fund T. Rowe Price Group Inc., of Baltimore, an investment management company, announced the launching of the U.S. Large-Cap Core Fund. The fund, consisting of 50 to 75 companies...

Baltimore man pleads guilty of kidnapping at light rail.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Danny Jacobs A Baltimore man pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in kidnapping two teenagers last fall at the Timonium light rail station park-and-ride lot and then sexually assaulting the female victim. Brian T. Scott, 18, can...

Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group's third reactor in Maryland needs EDF deal approval.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Danielle Ulman Constellation Energy Group's plans to build a third nuclear reactor in Maryland are closely tied to state approval of its deal with a French utility. While Constellation praised the state's Public Service...

In Md., not so rapid tax refunds.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Andy Rosen The state is processing paper personal income tax returns more slowly this year, which means that some are just getting refunds that they filed for in April. Comptroller Peter Franchot's office said Tuesday that it...

Ports America, Ceres bidding on Seagirt Marine Terminal, announces Md. Port Administration.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Andy Rosen The Maryland Port Administration said Tuesday it has two legitimate bidders competing take over operations at Seagirt Marine Terminal, including the current stevedoring company at the facility and an international...

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center settles federal False Claims lawsuit.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Steve Lash Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc. has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a federal False Claims Act lawsuit over its bills for government-paid care. The lawsuit stems from an allegation that the Baltimore...

Maryland Legal Briefs: July 1, 2009.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Report Pharmacist faces drug charges U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein announced Tuesday the federal indictment of pharmacist Ketankumar Arvind Patel, 47, of Eldersburg, and Deepa Inc., d/b/a The Medicine Shoppe...

Daily Record Legal Briefs: July 2, 2009.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Builder, sister plead guilty A new homes builder in Owings Mills and his sister pleaded guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court to six counts of failure to hold new home payments in escrow, the Maryland attorney...

Daily Record Business Briefs: July 2, 2009.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Sodexo shows sales gain Sodexo, the world's second-largest catering company, said third-quarter revenue climbed 11 percent after winning contracts from schools, hospitals and corporate customers around the world....

University of Maryland Medical System, Upper Chesapeake merging.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Ethan Rothstein The Upper Chesapeake Health System and the University of Maryland Medical System Wednesday announced a merger that they hope to have completed by 2013. Upper Chesapeake Health is the largest private employer in...

Immigrant sentenced to life in prison for 'brutal' assault on Maryland man.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Danny Jacobs A 21-year-old Honduran immigrant was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for what a judge called a brutal assault that left a Halethorpe man without the use of one eye. Alexander Ronquillo Rivera was found guilty...

A more frugal Fourth around Maryland.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Maria Zilberman Tradition is winning out over budget cuts as several areas in Maryland scale back Fourth of July festivities, but preserve the holiday's most iconic and expensive feature: Fireworks. A decrease in private...

Sleepy execs in Maryland hit biotech finish line.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Daniel Ulman Five days of waiting came to an end Wednesday morning, when sleep-deprived biotechnology executives handed in their applications to receive coveted funding from the state's biotech tax credit fund. Maryland awards...

Developer wants 1,500 residential units near Curtis Bay.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Robbie Whelan Baltimore officials Wednesday went forward with a complex land deal to sell 98 city-owned acres in Anne Arundel County to a developer who wants to eventually build 1,500 new residential units there. Steve...

Rockville-based developer Opus East files for Ch. 7.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Robbie Whelan Opus East LLC, the developer that until last month was behind one of the biggest BRAC-related deals in Harford County, filed for Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy on Wednesday afternoon. Listing $237.9 million in...

Judge to rule on Constellation's challenge to Maryland Public Service Commission review.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Brendan Kearney A judge could decide by this afternoon whether the Maryland Public Service Commission can proceed with its review of Constellation Energy Group's planned sale of nearly half its nuclear power generation business to...

Commentary: What happens to online info after a death in real life.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Larry Fiorino We spend half our lives online -- buying and selling stuff, creating social media pages, passwords, gaming personas. So what happens to our online life when we pass away in real life? Someone needs to manage...

Commentary: Harnessing the power of the mommy-blogger.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Jackie Sauter My mom loves to talk about the brag book she had when my sister and I were small. It was a miniature scrapbook with pages that flipped, so she could show off our baby photos on the '80s-version of a mobile...

Commentary: Entrepreneurship: More than taking a dive.
July 3, 2009... Byline: J. Howard Kucher Remember the Cliff Divers of Acapulco, those death-defying guys featured on ABC's Wide World of Sports years ago? They'd stand on the edge of a rock cliff about a hundred feet up from a narrow bay, with the...

Commentary: Fairness is the ultimate test.
July 3, 2009... Byline: C. Fraser Smith Two Baltimoreans -- 35-year-old civil rights lawyer Josh Civin and civil rights elder statesman the Rev. Marion Bascom -- had important roles in this week's contentious New Haven firefighters case before the U.S....

Md. businesses watch impact of Delaware tax hikes.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Andy Rosen Experts and business leaders on both sides of the border disagree about whether the competitive balance between Maryland and Delaware will be changed by a package of tax increases passed by the neighboring state this...

Week in Review - Business Edition.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff and wire reports Less ‘highway to nowhere’ Baltimore City and the state are looking to knock down a portion of the Route 40 “highway to nowhere” in West Baltimore as part of a plan to create more...

Marylanders on the Move: July 3, 2009.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Awards The Maryland Chamber of Commerce announced that the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland is the recipient of its Nonprofit Partner in Business Award. The award recognizes a nonprofit organization that has...

A retrospective: Baltimore's Peter Angelos at 80.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Liz Farmer What the Peter G. Angelos name means in Baltimore depends on who you ask. Angelos, who turns 80 on Saturday, is a legal giant -- a civic white knight who became the king of asbestos in the 1980s, securing $1 billion in...

Owner of the Baltimore Orioles: Peter G. Angelos: First and foremost, a lawyer.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Danny Jacobs Scott Shellenberger and his fellow Baltimore County prosecutors and investigators were celebrating when the waiter unexpectedly brought drinks to their table. It was 1987, and the prosecutors had just secured a guilty...

Peter G. Angelos, the authoritative Baltimore O's owner.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Liz Farmer Looking around Peter G. Angelos' office on the 22nd floor of One Charles Center, you'd never guess he had anything to do with the Baltimore Orioles. The tiny clues are practically drowned out by the brilliantly...

Md. Court of Appeals: Attorney Grievance Commission v. Gisriel.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Professional Responsibility Disbarment BOTTOM LINE: Disbarment was the appropriate sanction where attorney took a check made solely payable to his client, made it payable to himself, signed his name, and...

Md. Court of Appeals: Attorney Grievance Commission v. McLaughlin.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Professional Responsibility Indefinite suspension BOTTOM LINE: Indefinite suspension was the appropriate sanction for attorney who violated multiple rules of professional conduct, but whose conduct was not...

Md. Court of Special Appeals: Rios v. State.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Criminal Procedure Plea agreements BOTTOM LINE: Where defendant moved to enforce plea agreement withdrawn by prosecutor following defense counsel's inquiry as to alternative terms, circuit court erred in...

Md. Court of Special Appeals: Washington Mutual Bank v. Homan.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Real Property Conveyance of property BOTTOM LINE: Circuit court's award of summary judgment in favor of property owners was based on an erroneous application of Maryland law with respect to the notice...

U.S. 4th Circuit - United States v. Gould.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Criminal Procedure Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act BOTTOM LINE: Maryland's pre-Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act program required convicted sex offender to register upon relocation...

U.S. 4th Circuit - Arthur v. Ticor Title Insurance Company of Florida.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Insurance Title insurance BOTTOM LINE: Plaintiffs failed to state a claim for a violation of s.8 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act where defendant and its agents performed services in return for...

U.S. District Court, Md.: Tobacco Technology, Inc. v. Taiga International N.V., et al.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Contracts Agency BOTTOM LINE: Where corporate president had actual and apparent authority to act on behalf of the corporation, contract executed by him was valid and binding and contracting parties were...

Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler turns up pressure on financers.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Andy Rosen State regulators are continuing to push a group of small finance companies to change the way customers pay premiums to Maryland's car insurer of last resort, continuing a legal and regulatory debate that has gone on for...

White Marsh attorney published heroic fantasy novel.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Danny Jacobs Marvel Comics posters hang in Bill Klumpp's White Marsh office. He's always been a fan of the internal struggle that plagues Spiderman, Wolverine and the other heroes of the Marvel Universe. His favorite character is...

Maryland lawyers join international project to train counterparts.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Caryn Tamber Apartheid in South Africa may have ended 15 years ago, but black lawyers there are still catching up to their white colleagues. Black lawyers have historically been funneled into litigation, family and criminal defense...

Md. Court of Special Appeals: Employees' Retirement System of Baltimore County, Maryland v. Brown.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record Staff Labor & Employment Service retirement allowance BOTTOM LINE: Substantial evidence supported denial by the Baltimore County Board of Appeals of employee's service retirement benefits on the ground that...

Md. Court of Special Appeals rules inheritance tax due on doctor's gifts.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Barbara Grzincic Gifts of more than a million dollars made by a Montgomery County doctor before his death are subject to Maryland's inheritance tax, the Court of Special Appeals has affirmed. Dr. Edwin M. Cohn, 87, gave his two...

Railroad company sues over $5M cleanup in Hagerstown.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Steve Lash A wood-treatment operation in Hagerstown that shut down more than 45 years ago lies at the heart of a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit. CSX Transportation Inc., which owns the 125-acre lot on which the treatment...

Frederick County jury awards $1.37M for vascular injury.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Steve Lash A Frederick County jury has awarded nearly $1.37 million to a woman who suffers chronic leg pain and must take a daily dose of blood thinner after a diagnostic test left her with vascular injuries three years ago. The...

Commentary: It's summertime -- Not a bad time for a midyear financial checkup.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Gary S. Williams The weather's great, so staying inside with your finances probably doesn't sound like a very entertaining option. But a midyear review of your tax situation, retirement and spending issues can be far more valuable...

Colliers Pinkard exec says announcement on 100 Light St. soon in Baltimore.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Robbie Whelan The owners of Baltimore's iconic 100 Light Street tower, which for more than 10 years was the headquarters of money manager Legg Mason, are close to finalizing a leasing deal for two floors, or about 32,000 square...

Mercy Medical in Baltimore says new barcoding system will prevent mix-ups.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Danielle Ulman Mercy Medical Center has added breast milk to its bar-coding system to avoid milk swaps in vulnerable premature infants, which can result in transmitting disease. Babies that remain in the neonatal intensive care...

Study: Average Baltimore parking rate - $13 per day.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Maria Zilberman Going against national trends, Baltimoreans are paying more this year for monthly garage parking, but less for daily parking, according to a study by Colliers International. The average cost of monthly...

Md. Court of Special Appeals rules officer should have revealed location.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Caryn Tamber A split Court of Special Appeals has reversed a drug conviction, holding that the trial judge should have made a police officer reveal where he was positioned when he witnessed a cocaine purchase. Although the...

4th Circuit upholds convictions in fatal Annapolis carjacking case.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Christina Doran The first-degree murder, carjacking and firearms convictions stemming from the 2002 murder of an Annapolis businessman have been upheld by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Leeander Jerome Blake argued to...

Baltimore clears hurdle in suit against Wells Fargo.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Brendan Kearney The city of Baltimore's mortgage-lending discrimination lawsuit against Wells Fargo Bank N.A. may proceed to what will be a time consuming and expensive discovery process, a federal judge ruled Thursday afternoon....

Marylanders on the Move: July 6, 2009.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record staff ADR Maryland Inc. recently elected new officers and two new members. The new president is Andrew J. Graham of Kramon & Graham P.A. The two new members are Gregory K. Wells of Shadoan, Michael & Wells LLP and Neil...

Week in review - Legal edition.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Daily Record staff Allegany County, developer sue Md. agencies The Allegany County Commissioners and a developer are suing two state agencies, the Associated Press reported. Terrapin Run LLC is seeking $16 million in damages...

Baltimore judge dismisses Constellation lawsuit.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Danielle Ulman A Baltimore judge dismissed Constellation Energy Group's lawsuit Thursday challenging the Maryland Public Service Commission's right to review the company's deal with a French utility. Circuit Court Judge Stuart...

Rite Aid's ex-counsel sues Grass, lawyers in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Brendam Kearney The former general counsel of Rite Aid Corp. is suing a prominent Baltimore law firm, two of its partners and Rite Aid's convict ex-CEO, alleging their fraud increased his own 10-year sentence for fraud and...

Baltimore developers get proactive.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Robbie Whelan The Baltimore Development Workgroup, a coalition of real estate developers and lawyers meant to give their businesses a louder voice in city government, was formed last year by local attorneys Jon Laria, Stanley Fine...

Maryland Legal Briefs: July 7, 2009.
July 7, 2009... Byline: The Daily Record Staff O'Malley open on other states' gay marriages Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley says the state should probably respect the rights granted by same-sex marriages in other states. Speaking on WTOP's Ask the Governor...

The Daily Record News Briefs: July 7, 2009.
July 7, 2009... Byline: The Daily Record Staff Too many fliers? The Baltimore County Council is considering a bill that would bar businesses from leaving fliers on windshields. The council was scheduled to vote on the bill Monday evening. The bill would...

Commentary: Clearer guidance on gainsharing would lower costs.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Barry F. Rosen As Congress debates new health care reforms, mixed signals from regulators unfortunately continue to slow down some old reforms, such as gainsharing. Gainsharing arrangements involve hospitals paying physicians a...

Baltimore hotel bookings up 16% over last year.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Liz Farmer In the face of a recession and declining attendance at conventions, the Baltimore Area Visitors and Convention Association announced Monday that its future hotel room bookings are up nearly 16 percent over last year. ...

Cloverleaf files $20M suit against Maryland Thoroughbred Assn.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Liz Farmer The bankrupt owner of Rosecroft Raceway filed a $20 million suit Monday against the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, the Maryland Jockey Club and 15 other defendants, and is promising more suits to come...

Drowned Maryland boy's estate gets win on appeal.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Steve Lash A jury will decide if a 5-year-old boy endured conscious pain and suffering before drowning, unseen, in a Crofton Country Club pool three years ago. On Monday -- which would have been Connor Freed's 9th birthday --...