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August 2011

2007 - Arrington vs. DHR - No Civil Contempt (Child Support) Without Present Ability to Purge

Posted on: 08/13/2011

Arrington v. Department of Human Resources, 402 Md. 79, 935 A.2d 432 (2007)

Arrington v. Dept. of Human Res., et al., No. 10, September Term, 2007.

McLong v. Oliver, No. 26 , September Term, 2007.

Notice from the MD Bankruptcy Court

Posted on: 08/29/2011

The Local Rules for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Maryland have been updated. Click the link below to see the revised version.

2010-2011 Journal Articles on Same-Sex Marriage & Civil Unions

Posted on: 08/31/2011

Some recent journal articles on gay rights/same-sex marriage/civil unions:

Courtney G. Joslin, Searching for Harm: Same-Sex Marriage and the Well-Being of Children, 46 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 81 (Winter 2011)

Rachael M.

5 Signs of a Foreclosure Rescue Scam

Posted on: 08/31/2011

Maryland Legal Aid’s Vicki King Taitano, director of the Foreclosure Legal Assistance Project, was interviewed by Black Enterprise for an article about foreclosure rescue scams.

“I think people need lawyers.

Evidence: how to get material from social network and other websites into evidence

Posted on: 08/31/2011

If you need to know how to get that Facebook page, or Tweet, into evidence, this is the case for Maryland.

If I ever get a breather, I collected some good materials from a training I helped create and present at the MD Bar Association meeting in July.  This was one of the cases we reviewed for Maryland, and is the primary test for evidence now.  

Without meaning to offend the prosecutors in this case, the evidence presented on where the documents came from, and who had control over the website, was pretty thin.  As a result, it is now more important than

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